Did Elizabeth ever mention Anne Boleyn?
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David Starkey says that she did not but Alison Weir states that Elizabeth mentioned her mother twice, but "neither of them particularly revealing". She did, however, keep a miniature of her mother in a locket ring (The Chequers Ring) along with a miniature of herself and she was close to her cousins the Careys. We have to remember that Elizabeth was only 2 years and 8 months when he mother was executed and so probably could not remember her.
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It’s striking and rather incredible that Elizabeth idolized her father, when he had her mother killed. How was this possible? Do you think it had something to do with her being too young to really remember her mother? I imagine it would have been much harder for her to love Henry if she had been close to Anne.
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You need to remember, Queen Elizabeth was a very small child when she lost her mother. She would have very few if any memories of her.
And, being raised by King Henry’s staff, of course all she was EVER going to hear about her mother was what an evil, adulterous, incestuous witch she was.
No one in the court or as part of Henry’s staff was going to ever tell Elizabeth anything otherwise (THE TRUTH) about her mother.
After all, they liked their heads just fine where they were-on their necks !
Hi Tonja,
Yes, Elizabeth was only 2 years and 8 months when her mother died plus she only stayed with Anne for the first 3 months of her life and then was removed to her own household. It is highly likely that she would not have remembered her mother at all. As a queen though, she did surround herself with Boleyn relatives so I’m sure she could have grilled them for information about her mother, I hope she did.
Tonja hit the nail right on the head.
Elizabeth has no memories of her mother (she was much too young to remember anything at all). And anything that she DID hear would be very negative towards her mother. All Elizabeth had was her father, so I think she realized very early on that I should just love what I have, because that’s all I can have.