Category: Early Life
Articles about when Elizabeth I was a younger woman
Just who was the real Queen Elizabeth I?
If you’ve been following my weekly videos on the Starz series “Becoming Elizabeth”, you’ll have realised that I’ve been rather…
Becoming Elizabeth Episode 7 – To laugh, to lie, to flatter, to face
Episode 7 of Becoming Elizabeth, “To laugh, to lie, to flatter, to face”, was yet another action packed episode. We…
Becoming Elizabeth – Episode 6 – What Cannot be Cured – The fact behind the fiction
In episode 6 of “Becoming Elizabeth”, “What cannot be cured”, we saw Thomas Seymour pay the ultimate price for his…
Becoming Elizabeth Episode 5 – Necessity compels me to plague you – The real history behind the show
This week’s episode, Necessity compels me to plague you, was jam-packed! Thomas Seymour stalks Elizabeth and manages to wheedle out…
Becoming Elizabeth Books – Books to help you learn the history behind the series
I hope that the Starz series “Becoming Elizabeth” is making viewers hungry to know more about the real historical people…
Becoming Elizabeth – Episode 4 – Lighten Our Darkness – Becoming Elizabeth or Becoming Mary?
This week’s episode of Becoming Elizabeth, Lighten our Darkness, had us thinking that Elizabeth might just be pregnant, saw the…
Becoming Elizabeth – Episode 3 – Either Learn or Be Silent
In this week’s episode of “Becoming Elizabeth”, episode 3 “Either Learn or Be Silent”, things come to a head between…
Becoming Elizabeth – Episode 2 Part 2 with feedback from Tom Cullen and Anya Reiss
Thank you to all those who commented on my last video with their views on the Elizabeth and Seymour storyline….
Actor Tom Cullen responds to my anger over Becoming Elizabeth’s Thomas Seymour and Elizabeth Storyline
Trigger alert: This post is on the topic of abuse and grooming. If you’ve watched my video on the second…
Becoming Elizabeth – Episode 1 – Keep the Knife Bright – Fictions versus history
In the first of these weekly videos on the Starz series “Becoming Elizabeth”, I discuss Episode 1 “Keep your knife…
NEW Elizabeth I online event starts with a chat about Becoming Elizabeth this week!
Did you watch the first episode of “becoming Elizabeth”? I did, and I made rather a lot of notes too!…
Mary I releases Elizabeth from the Tower of London
On this day in Tudor history, 19th May 1554, in the reign of Queen Mary I, Elizabeth (the future Queen…
Not forgetting what words her grace’s mother said to me – Matthew Parker, Anne Boleyn and Elizabeth I
On 17th December 1559, just over a year after Queen Elizabeth I had come to the throne, 55-year-old Matthew Parker…
Wyatt dies proclaiming Elizabeth’s innocence
On this day in Tudor history, 11th April 1554, in the reign of the Catholic Queen Mary I, Sir Thomas…
Elizabeth is arrested and taken to the Tower!
On this day in Tudor history, 18th March 1554, Palm Sunday, Elizabeth, daughter of King Henry VIII by his second…
Mothering Sunday – Elizabeth I, her mother and mother figures
Happy Mothering Sunday to all those celebrating today! I know it’s Mother’s Day in the UK and my mum is…
7 September 1533 – The Birth of Elizabeth I at Greenwich Palace
On 7th September 1533, Queen Elizabeth I was born at Greenwich Palace. Her parents were King Henry VIII and his…
10 October 1562 – Elizabeth I Contracted Smallpox
On 10th October 1562, the twenty-nine year-old Elizabeth I was taken ill at Hampton Court Palace, with what was thought…
19th May 1554 – Elizabeth is Released from the Tower of London
On the 19th May 1554, the future Elizabeth I was released from the Tower of London and escorted to Woodstock,…
Death of Roger Ascham – 30 December 1568
Scholar and royal tutor Roger Ascham died on this day in history, 30th December 1568, after being taken ill on…
