Young Elizabeth
If she be no more educated than she now appeareth to me, she will prove of no less honour and womanhood, than shall beseem her father's daughter.
Sir Thomas Wriothesley (1505–50) on meeting the six-year old Elizabeth in 1539.
- Elizabeth Tudor was born at Greenwich Palace on 7 September 1533 to Henry VIII and his second wife,...
- After the death of her father and accession of her brother, Edward VI, in 1547, Elizabeth went to...
- Mary and Elizabeth were not close – the half-sisters were separated by age and religion, and Mary...