The+bitter++childhood+of+a+queen

=The bitter childhood of a queen.=

//Nice dresses, glam, parties, horses, princes, fairytales and castles.// //And that’s not all of it, because your father is the king of England. We make up our opinion of that little girl who is becoming older, and soon, when the king dies, she is becoming the queen of England. Sounds good for us, but is this life really that great? The answer is here, you can't buy happiness. Read all of this in this exclusive article about my meeting with queen Elizabeth; a woman with strength, feelings, and thoughts, telling us honestly about that life, trying to keep being daddy’s little angel...//

Here are some small facts; Elizabeth I was born on September 7, 1533 at Greenwich Palace near London. Her father was England's King Henry VIII; her mother was the king's second wife, Anne Boleyn. Elizabeth had an older half-sister, Mary, who was the daughter of the king's first wife, Catherine of Aragon.



Does this sound a little complicated to you? Well, it does to me. To make this a little bit short and easy, I can assure you that she had a lot of mothers and step-sisters/brothers. That’s not always that easy for a girl. Her childhood was embossed by many divorces and deaths, and before she even got to turn three years old, her mother got executed on the Tower Green, because she got arrested on false charges of adultery. We should think that this was a very difficult period, not just for little Elizabeth, but also for the rest of the family. But that’s wrong. The king married Jane Seymour only two weeks after.

Henry and Jane got a little son, Edward. Not long after his birth, Jane Seymour died. Elizabeth and Edward became very close; although they lived in separate households, they wrote to each other often. It couldn’t be easy, if you think about the situations they were in back then.

But everything didn’t have to be that difficult for Elizabeth. She was very, very good at school work. When she was four, Katherine Champernowne became her governess. Kath began to teach Elizabeth astronomy, geography, history, math, French, Flemish, Italian, Spanish, and other subjects. You should think that princesses didn’t have to do any work at all, but this girl wasn’t, and isn’t like any other girl. She actually worked hard, and she became an excellent student. I met her tutor Roger Ascham yesterday, and he had only nice things to say like, //"She talks French and Italian as well as she does English. When she writes Greek and Latin, nothing is more beautiful than her handwriting//.”



Well, as I mentioned, Elizabeth have experienced a lot of divorces, but she didn’t left her husbands. It was actually her father who couldn’t decide what woman he loved. You can only imagine how it is to mean so little to someone who means that much to you. Elizabeth was young, and Henry went from one wife to another. He married Anne of Cleve, but, she was too ugly for him, so he went to a 15 year old girl, Katherine Howard. She was actually Anne’s cousin. Confusing? Yes! Anyway, Elizabeth can tell us that Queen Katherine was beheaded in 1542, when the princess was only seven years old… The time moved on, and Elizabeth’s stepmothers came and went. Of course this made an impression on the queen. When she was eight years old, she met one of Edward’s class-mate, and she told him an important sentence that she means even today; “I will never marry," she said. It was a decision that would shape her life.

Queen Elizabeth is a role model for all of us women. No one is that brave and stubborn. She is beautiful, and if some of us had had that look, we would use it. But this woman isn’t like that. A lots of pretty men have proposed to her, already from she was 15 years old. She rejected all of them, even though she fell in love with Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, son of Lettice Knollys. This romance didn’t last for so long.



Men weren’t the only problem in her life. She had also a throne to receive. Henry died, and his other kids got the throne before Elizabeth. After a long life, fighting for the throne, her siblings died and she finally got the name Queen Elizabeth. She had to go through a lot, and she almost got executed, for no reason actually. It’s no need to say that she had an unusually childhood. But after all she has going through, she is still standing strong. It is my pleasure to say that I’m satisfied with our queen, Queen Elizabeth 1 of England.

Stina Kvaløy

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