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.
I think you have to get away from the modern way of thinking on this. For 16thC aristocrats parents were not love objects. In fact children and parents would barely know each other. Kids were sent away at a young age, and younger kids were cared for by nurses. Mother-love such as it was was provided by servants, not by the mother, and fathers were even more distant. Probably Eliz venerated her father because he was her king, and also represented her own claim to kingship. By asserting her connection to him she was strengthening her legitimacy. It would have been a public, political admiration, not necessarily in any way connected to her private feelings.
I think Elizabeth had a love/hate feeling for HenryVIII. While she most likely would not have had much of a relationship due to the times and position she was in, she still was able to observe Henry VIII and was bound to have heard numerous things – good and bad – about her mother as she got older. With this in mind, I think, in her heart, she was afraid of marriage – and the unexpected changes that could happen in a marriage, as well as a person. She was an extremely strong person, due to her life experiences, so why even take the risk of marriage? It is this strength and independence, as well as her -probably unconscience – fear of marriage, that kept her from ever marrying. My opinion.
Hi… am facinated to found this page about my dear Elizabeth… An i have one cuestion why the name of Elizabeth in traduction to spanish is Isabel??
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I don’t know, Leah, I guess it’s the same for Juan and John, Enrique and Henry, and how the English anglicised Catherine of Aragon’s real name, Cataline, and called her Catherine. It’s all very weird!. I never understand why place names are different e.g. London is Londres in Spanish, Sevilla is Seville in English, Firenze is Florence in English, it’s all very strange!
I agree, she did not have any memories of her mother. Being raised, Elizabeth was often humiliated about her mother. “The whore” and other names, known as first woman his majesty has executed. I feel she carried the fact of her mother being murdered with her throughout her life.
I have to disagree, I think she remembered, I also think children are smarter than adults. Even to this day children know when not to bring up subjects. If you were a child knowing your mother’s head was chopped off. Would you open your mouth? When you are called a bastard? I think she was very smart. She had to be.