Okay i’m confused how exactly did Elizabeth I die? Was it the lead in her face paint? Old age? Cancer? Or is it just unknown so everyone guesses?
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Nobody actually knows what Elizabeth I died of but it could actually be simple old age as she was 69, a great age in Tudor times. There was no post mortem, so all we can do is theorise, but it may be that she died of blood poisoning after decades of using ceruse, the white face make-up she was so famous for, which contained lead, but it may also have been cancer, we just don't know. She did seem to sink into a depression after the execution of her favourite, Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, and the deaths of close friends, so perhaps she also lost the will to live.
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There was an interesting cause of death given on the Internet a few years ago, which I can no longer find that said she had a specific illness caused by an infected tooth. (Her teeth were terribly decayed and black.) The condition would result in a root canal today, but that wasn’t done back then.
The disease has a name, but I don’t recall it. In any case, the infection from the tooth spreads down the throat and neck, infecting the glands there and eventually shutting off her bronchial tubes, causing death. This disease fits all her last symptoms, sucking a finger, refusing food and drink, not being able to speak. The article was quite convincing.