Queen Elizabeth

Queen Elizabeth

Elizabeth the daugther of Anne Boleyn and Henry the eight was born in 1533. Also three years later Anne Boleyn had a son but he soon died at birth. Then during that year Henry accused Anne of comitting adultery with five different men so a day later Anne and the men were all executed. After a couple of days later he soon married Jane Seymour. Elizabeth was was brought up in protestant faith unlike her sister who was catholic. In 1549 Elizabeth rejected the advances of Thomas seymour. Then Elizabeth was imprisoned in the tower of london. Also then in 1558 Mary died and Elizabeth became queen of England. However Pope Paul the forth was unhappy and told Elizabeth to beg for his permission to be queen but she refused. But during 1559 Elizabeth passed an act of uniformity which meant everyone in England had to attend protestant churches. Then as soon as Marys husband dies she rushes to scottland to claim her throne. Elizabeth felt Mary posed as a threat to claim her throne. Elizabeth told Robert Dudley to marry her sister Mary for that she couldnt get the throne but it was too late Mary had married Henry Darnley son of Margaret Douglas and the grand daughter of Henry the seventh. This marriage only strengthened her chances of claiming the throne. Next Mary gave birth to a son in 1566 named James. So then two months later after the death of her husband Darnley from gunpowder she then married Bothwell. Then her army was then defeated so she fled to England so Elizabeth would supply