Although Henry VIII had six marriages, his daughter Elizabeth had none at all. Could it be that her father's multiple marriages had traumatized her spiritually?
She is known as the virgin king who does not allow men to approach, but although she has never been married, she does not hide that she has a lover.
After the death of Henry VIII, his three children successively became kings. But in the decade before the accession of the third king, Elizabeth, Britain was in chaos.
The first was that Edward VI (reigned 1547-1553), son of Jane Seymour, became king at the age of nine, but his uncle (Jane Seymour's brother), Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset, held real power.
Edward 's brother Thomas Seymour had married Henry VIII's sixth wife, Catherine Parr, and wanted Edward VI to marry Jane Grey and seduce Elizabeth in order to gain power.
But in the end, he was executed in 1549 for treason. This is also known as the Seymour affair. Elizabeth was also suspected of being involved in the conspiracy, after which she became more cautious about her words and actions.
Taking advantage of this event, it was John Dudley, Earl of Warwick, who replaced the Duke of Somerset and gained power. He succeeded in arresting and executing the Duke of Somerset for treason in 1552. So he asked his son Guildford to marry Jane Grey and plotted to make Jane the heir to Edward VI.
Jane Grey was the daughter of Henry Grey, Duke of Suffolk and the great-granddaughter of Henry VIII, and therefore had the right to inherit the throne.
In 1553, Edward died of illness and Dudley declared Jean Grey to the throne. But Mary (Edward's sister), championed by Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk, eventually won. Jane Grey was overthrown after only nine days as queen and imprisoned in the Tower of London. John Dudley was executed.
Henry VIII and Mary, daughter of Catherine Aragon, succeeded to the throne. Strictly speaking, she is the first queen in British history. She married Philip, a Spanish Catholic, and suppressed Protestants, earning her the notoriety of "Bloody Mary". Mary hated Elizabeth, the daughter of Anne Brin, who divorced her parents.
Mary and Spain became close and restored relations with the Pope. As a result, Britain became involved in a religious war between Spain and France, which eventually lost Calais in the war. Peasant uprisings also broke out in Britain. In this chaotic situation, Mary died in 1558, transferring the throne to Elizabeth.
Soon, an "Elizabethan era" began. But in fact, Elizabeth, the daughter of Anne Brin, had suffered many crises before she came to the throne, and was once imprisoned by Mary in the Tower of London.
Henry VIII's three children, Mary, Edward and Elizabeth, left no descendants of their own. Thus, Henry's two sisters, Mary and Margaret, became heirs to the throne.
With Mary's granddaughter Jane Grey in seclusion, only Mary, Mary, remains of Mary, who will challenge Elizabeth to the throne.
Mary Stewart was the daughter of King James V of Scotland (son of Margaret and James IV) and Princess Marie Lorraine of France. She and James, son of Henry, Duke of Darnley, succeeded Elizabeth as King of England and founded the Stewart dynasty.
Elizabeth and Mary Stewart, as queens of England and Scotland, have a fateful entanglement between them.
Although Elizabeth is not married, she does not hate men, and there are scandals about her public tryst with her lover. Her initial affair was related to a man named Robert Dudley.
Robert was the son of John, Duke of Northumberland, and once discussed marriage with Elizabeth's childhood sweetheart. But as mentioned earlier, his father, John Dudley, was executed for supporting Jane Grey in a vain attempt to gain the throne, and Robert was imprisoned in the Tower of London.
After Elizabeth became queen, the two began to become close again, but this attracted gossip from the ministers. Because Robert is the son of a rebel and has a wife named Amy Robsart.
Elizabeth immediately took the throne and put Robert in charge of feeding the horses in the palace in order to keep him by his side. Because the Queen loved to ride horses, Robert was always by her side.
As a result, rumors about the relationship between the two began to circulate in Britain and spread to the European continent through spies from various countries lurking in Britain.
In 1559, the Queen appointed Robert a Knight of the Garter. Robert is a dark-skinned and intelligent, athletic man who is popular with women but not trusted by men.
In 1560, Elizabeth toured the country, and this was her first appearance as a queen in front of the world, and she was warmly welcomed by the people. Robert, on the other hand, dressed in gorgeous clothes, accompanied her.
Robert hid the fact that he had a wife, which Elizabeth reportedly knew nothing about. It was not until September 1560, when Robert's wife, Amy, fell down the stairs and broke her neck and died, that the relationship was made public.
There are various theories about her death, some say that Amy committed suicide because she had breast cancer, but there are also rumors that Robert killed her.