💙📚 Procession Portrait of Queen Elizabeth I of England preceded by the Knights of the Garter. #elizabethi #portraits #history #elizabethan #queen

💙📚 Contemporary accounts describe people crying out her name and calling her a mother of the nation.

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Orianaes farewell, also known as Oriana's Epitaph: a #madrigal by Thomas Bateson.
Written on the death Queen Elizabeth I, who died #onthisday in 1603.
From the First Set of English Madrigales, 1604
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👑 On this day in 1603: Elizabeth I of England dies. 

Elizabeth I reigned as queen of England from 1558 to 1603. 

📝 Article by Mark Cartwright. 
🖼️ Portraits by William Segar, Isaac Oliver or Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger and Nicholas Hilliard. 

#ElizabethI #OnThisDay #TodayInHistory #History

James VI and I: Spinning the English Succession

#ElizabethI died #OnThisDay in 1603.

Eager to be first in line, the astute James VI of Scotland responded to the question of the English succession with a war of words.

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#OTD 24 Mar 1603

#ElizabethI 69, died at Richmond Palace ending a period known as The Golden Age & 118yrs of Tudor Rule

Her 44yr reign was prosperous a period of exploration, discovery & literary growth but not without controversy!

Remembered as one of the greatest British monarchs of all time

"The end crowneth the work."

 👑 Queen #ElizabethI of England passed away #OTD 24 March 1603.

💙📚 On 24th March in 1603, Elizabeth I died at Richmond Palace, ending a reign of more than forty four years and bringing the Tudor dynasty to a close.

#ElizabethI #History #OnThisDay #Elizabethan #HistoryFact

#OTD 20 Mar 1549

#ThomasSeymour 1st Baron of Sudeley Castle met the🪓on 33 counts of treason

Uncle to a King, brother to a Queen & husband to Dowager Queen #KatherineParr

#ElizabethI said of him: This day died a man of much wit & very little judgement PTLH TV
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💙📚 He was the father of Anne Boleyn, the second wife of King Henry VIll, and was thus the maternal grandfather of Queen Elizabeth I. He died at Hever Castle on 12 March
1539 and was buried in St. Peter's Church, Hever in Kent.
#thomasboleyn #boleyn #hevercastle #anneboleyn #elizabethi

💙📚 On 13th of March 1591, William Tyrwhitt attempted to escape from the Tower of London. He was quickly recaptured and remained imprisoned for several more years.
#TudorHistory #TowerOfLondon #ElizabethI #HistoryFact #booksworthreading

Before Elizabeth I became queen… a scandal nearly destroyed her reputation.
She was just a teenager when Thomas Seymour began entering her chamber at dawn. Servants whispered. Rumours spread. The government investigated.
How did Elizabeth survive?
Watch the full story on YouTube.
#ElizabethI

Elizabeth I wasn’t born secure. She was declared illegitimate.
Imprisoned in the Tower.
Suspected of treason.
Before she ruled England’s Golden Age… she had to survive Tudor politics.

Watch Elizabeth I Before the Crown now on YouTube.
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#TudorHistory
#MaryI
#AnneBoleyn
#HenryVIII

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In Feb 1601, Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, was executed for treason after his failed uprising. Contemporary reports say the Queen withdrew from view after Essex’s death.
#TudorHistory #ElizabethI #EssexRebellion #HisFic #Elizabehan

On this day in 1570, Elizabeth I was excommunicated by Pope Pius V, a move that intensified the religious tensions of her reign. #OTD #TudorHistory #ElizabethI #History #historicalfiction

#OTD 25 Feb 1601

#RobertDevereux 2nd Earl of Essex met with the 🪓for treason
Having amassed a following he attempted to force an audience with #ElizabethI
Like his step-father #RobertDudley he had been her favourite but fell from grace & placed under house arrest for desertion
#Elizabethan
#History

#OTD
25th February 1570
Excommunication of Queen Elizabeth I by Pope Pius V.

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👑 #OTD in #History 25 February 1570, Pope #PiusV excommunicated Queen #ElizabethI of England, through the papal bull 'Regnans in Excelsis,' for heresy and persecution of English Catholics during her reign. Her subjects were also absolved from allegiance to the crown.

#OTD 24 Feb 1603

Katherine Howard (no, not that one) Countess of Nottingham died at Arundel House

Eldest daughter of #HenryCarey 1st Baron Hunsdon & Anne Morgan

#MaryBoleyn's granddaughter & cousin to #ElizabethI whom she served as Gentlewoman of the Privy Chamber

#Elizabethan
#History

#OTD 24 Feb 1580
Henry Fitzalan 12th Earl of Arundel died

At court from 15 probably the only English nobleman to serve
#HenryVIII
#EdwardVI
#MaryI
#ElizabethI
What amazing tales he could tell being at the centre of #TheTudors for 65yrs

But DYK he introduced passenger coaches to the UK?

#History

#OTD 13 Feb 1608

The 4 times wed Elizabeth Talbot, #BessofHardwick died at Hardwick

She lay in state until her funeral at Derby Cathedral on 4 May

Considered 2nd in wealth to only #ElizabethI, her legacy being her building projects Chatsworth House & Hardwick & her embroidery

#Elizabethan

Elizabeth I loved the lively, whirling volta a Tudor dance full of spins and little lifts. A queen with serious moves. #ElizabethI #historicalfiction #Dance #Elizabethan #KU #books

#OTD
12th February 1590
Blanche Parry, chief Gentlewoman of the Privy Chamber, died at the age of 82.
She was buried in St Margaret's, Westminster.

#BlancheParry #gentlewomanofthebedchamber #QueenElizabethI #ElizabethI #Tudors #History

Tilbury Fort in Essex, originally built by Henry VIII and enlarged in the 1670s. It was famously near here that Elizabeth I addressed her troops in August 1588 as the Spanish Armada approached #tilburyfort #elizabethi #spanisharmada #queenelizabeth

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For heaven’s sake let us sit upon the ground
And tell sad stories of the death of kings.

🎭 #OTD in #Theatre 7 Feb 1601, a performance of #Shakespeare's "Richard II" was held at The Globe, commissioned by allies of the Earl of Essex's planned revolt against Queen #ElizabethI.

Anne Boleyn painting was reworked in 1583 to quell 'sixth finger' & witchcraft myths, scans find For centuries, the rumors about Anne Boleyn have tended to travel faster than the evidence. A newly examined 1583 portrait of Anne Boleyn suggests an artist made a careful visual correction, painting ...

Anne Boleyn’s portrait gets a forensic close-up, and the fingers tell the story of “witchcraft” defiance. #AnneBoleyn #ArtHistory #TudorHistory #ElizabethanEra #ElizabethI community.designtaxi.com/topic/23057-...

Read Love Letters From Royals and Romantics Across 500 Years of British History A new exhibition at Britain's National Archives features a letter to Elizabeth I, Jane Austen's will and a plea to free Oscar Wilde from prison

Read Love Letters From Royals and Romantics Across 500 Years of British History: A new exhibition at Britain's National Archives features a letter to Elizabeth I, Jane Austen's will and a plea to free Oscar Wilde from… @SmithsonianMag #BritishHistory #RoyalLetters #JaneAusten #ElizabethI #OscarWilde

#OTD 1 Feb 1587

#ElizabethI summoned her secretary, William Davison to bring #MaryQueenofScots death warrant

Signing it she made it clear it not be issued without her permission!
Did she know it would be acted upon regardless?

Who made that final decision?
Answers on a postcard!

#History