Elizabeth I was one of the queens of England.

She was born September 7, 1533,

Greenwich, near London, England and she died March 24, 1603, Richmond, Surrey. She
was also named the Virgin Queen and Good Queen Bess. She ruled in England from 1558
to 1603, this period of time often called the Elizabethan Age. During this period, England
asserted itself vigorously as a major European power in politics, commerce, and the arts.

Although her small kingdom was threatened by grave internal divisions, Elizabeth’s blend
of shrewdness, courage, and majestic self-display inspired ardent expressions of loyalty and
helped unify the nation against foreign enemies. The adulation bestowed upon her both in
her lifetime and in the ensuing centuries was not altogether a spontaneous effusion. It was
the result of a carefully crafted, brilliantly executed campaign in which the queen fashioned
herself as the glittering symbol of the nation’s destiny. This political symbolism had more
substance than usual, for the queen was by no means a mere figurehead. While she did not
wield the absolute power, she tenaciously upheld her authority to make critical decisions and
to set the central policies of both state and church.

How was the Elizabeth’s childhood?

Regarding her childhood, Elizabeth’s early years were not auspicious. She was born at
Greenwich Palace, her father was Tutor king Henry VIII and her mother was Anne Boleyn
who was the second wife of Henry. Henry had defied the pope and broken England from the
authority of the Roman Catholic Church in order to dissolve his marriage with his first wife,
Catherine of Aragon, who had borne him a daughter, Mary. Since the king ardently hoped
that Anne Boleyn would give birth to a male heir, the birth of a second daughter was a bitter
disappointment that dangerously weakened the new queen’s position. He had to have a
male because the birth of a male was regarded as key to stable dynastic succession.

How did he solve the problem?

Before Elizabeth reached her third birthday, her father had her mother beheaded on
charges of adultery and treason. Moreover, at Henry’s instigation, an act of Parliament
declared his marriage with Anne Boleyn invalid from the beginning, thus making their
daughter Elizabeth illegitimate, as Roman Catholics had all along claimed her to be.
However, the emotional impact of these events on the little girl, who had been brought up
from infancy in a separate household at Hatfield, is not known; presumably, no one thought it
worth recording. What was noted was her precocious seriousness; at six years old, it was
admiringly observed, she had as much gravity as if she had been 40.

When in 1537 Henry’s third wife, Jane Seymour, gave birth to a son, Edward, Elizabeth
receded still further into relative obscurity, but she was not neglected. Despite his capacity
for monstrous cruelty, Henry VIII treated all his children affectively. Elizabeth was present at
ceremonial occasions and was declared third in line to the throne. She spent much of the
time with her half-brother Edward and, from her 10th year onward, profited from the loving
attention of her stepmother, Catherine Parr, the king’s sixth and last wife.

How did Elizabeth get educated?

 When it comes to Elizabeth’s education, she had a Under a series of distinguished
tutors, of whom the best known is the Cambridge humanist Roger Ascham, Elizabeth
received the rigorous education normally reserved for male heirs, consisting of a course of
studies centring on classical languages, history, rhetoric, and moral philosophy. “Her mind
has no womanly weakness,” Ascham wrote with the unselfconscious sexism of the age, “her
perseverance is equal to that of a man, and her memory long keeps what it quickly picks up.”
In addition to Greek and Latin, she became fluent in French and Italian, attainments of which
she was proud and which were in later years to serve her well in the conduct of diplomacy.
Thus steeped in the secular learning of the Renaissance, the quick-witted and intellectually
serious princess also studied theology, imbibing the tenets of English Protestantism in its
formative period. Her association with the Reformation is critically important, for it shaped
the future course of the nation, but it does not appear to have been a personal passion:
observers noted the young princess’s fascination more with languages than with religious
dogma.