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Read all about Elizabeth's life, her journey to the throne and beyond, on Elizabeth I's web site. Elizabeth I's web site will cover her childhood, her near death experiences, how she became queen, and how she persevere' in her struggles as queen, being she was a Protestant woman and queen of a country with a male dominated populous which was still mostly Catholic. She led a very interesting and sometimes dangerous life, and was one of England's and even the world's greatest Monarchs. I think you will find her and her life's story very interesting.
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Last Updated; 09-02-2010 Latest Pages Updates
Updated; July 19, 2005
2. Elizabeth I's Councilors, Favorites, & Bureaucrats
3. The Elizabeth Religious Settlement
4. Queen Elizabeth I Power and Government
6. Queen Elizabeth I Pastime
7. Queen Elizabeth I Home Page
8. The Elizabethan Church and the Catholics
9. Elizabeth I's Education and Adolescence
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3. The Death of Queen Elizabeth I
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As of July 25, 2005 I have completed adding new pages and updating pages on Queen Elizabeth I web site, In the near future I will again be adding more information to this web site. I hope you enjoy what I have placed on here and that it has helped you to know and understand Queen Elizabeth I and her times.
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"The Volta" The dance Queen Elizabeth love to dance to, The Volta, was written by Michael Praetorius. He lived from 1571 to 1621. I have placed on here a more authentic rendition of The Volta than that of the movie version. I have placed on here as well a video clip off of You Tube from the movie Elizabeth, where Elizabeth and Robert Dudley danced that version of The Volta, please enjoy both!
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Another thing Elizabeth would confide to Robert when they were still children was that she would never marry. She was so traumatized by her mother's disastrous marriage to her father Henry the Eight, and her mother's tragic death at the hands of her father, that it made her afraid of marriage and gave her a very strong dislike for marriage, either for love or for political reasons. Although she loved her father very much and wanted and needed his love and approval, she feared her father of what he might do to her and she never forgave him for her mother's death, and this kept them from ever being close to each other, and thus kept those things away from her that she needed most in her life. After Elizabeth became queen, Robert became her "Favorite", and the two probably would have married, if it were not for the mysterious circumstances surrounding the death of Robert's first wife, Amy Robshart and the suspicion that Robert killed her, of course Robert not being home at the time of his wife's death didn't keep the rumor mills from spreading this belief around Elizabeth's court. Later Robert was deemed innocent of the death of his wife when a court of inquiry ruled Amy's death was accidental. But the damage to Robert's reputation was done. Their marriage would cause a great scandal and riff in Elizabeth's court, and prevented her from reigning effectively and cause her to have even more enemies which Elizabeth could ill afford at the time, being she had so many people already against her being queen. Plus her many peers and councilors were very jealous of Robert and his close relationship with Elizabeth and her great trust in his council, which made Robert very disliked in Elizabeth's court. Robert was probably the most hated person of his time, and if Elizabeth and Robert had married this would have caused such a split in Elizabeth court she would have surely been forcibly ousted as queen. Although it was depicted and strongly suggested in the movie 'Elizabeth', that Robert Dudley betrayed Elizabeth and England. This depiction of Robert siding with the Spanish Ambassador in a plot to undermine and destroy Elizabeth's ability to rule unless she married King Phillip of Spain was totally untrue. Robert was a loyal subject to both his queen and his country and loyally served both all of his life and even up to the time of his death, dying just shortly after he had served as one of Elizabeth's generals during the Spanish Armada scare. Robert stood by Elizabeth's' side as they waited together for the much feared landing of the Spanish Armada on England's shores. Even when they had strong disagreements between each other, and after Elizabeth would angrily have Robert thrown out of her court, they would still remained close friends and some say lovers throughout their lives, which I strongly believe to be true. By all the information and accounts of their lives, some which is actual history and some which is legend, indicate this to be true, and when Robert died in 1588, Elizabeth locked herself in her apartment not seeing nor speaking to anyone for four days, at the time it was thought Elizabeth herself had died. She mourned his death and missed his council and him being beside her every day for the rest of her life. This loss she felt drove her to try and find Robert in his son, Lord Essex, which ended in tragedy. She had over indulged Essex, because she seen Robert in him, and this led Essex into believing he could get by with whatever he wanted too. He tried to take over as ruler of England and dispose of Elizabeth and her government. But this failed and she had to order him to be executed as a traitor to the crown. This caused her even more pain, from which she never fully recovered. Shortly after Roberts' death when she sat for her famous 'Armada Portrait', the artist painting the portrait caught the distance look in Elizabeth's eyes. In the Marine Corps we called it 'the thousand yard stare', you can tell by her eyes that she was starring way beyond the person that was painting the portrait, and into a distant place far beyond this world, and for the portrait she was wearing black as if in mourning and wore the pearl necklace Robert had given her, draped around her neck and over her heart. Some of you may say that I'm reading too much into this, well maybe I am, I may be too much of a romantic, but I don't believe I am. Look at all her other portraits and she is always looking at the person painting her. I would think that she would have been wearing something a little more festive, since this was a very important portrait to celebrate the destruction of the Spanish Armada, which started England on the road to becoming a great world power. The defeat of Spain established the glory of the English navy and inspired merchants and explorers toward colonization of a wider world. She certainly loved Robert and his death left a void in her life that never could be filled and I for one, am very certain that they are together now and will be forever, because a love like theirs, even death cannot destroy it, and the love they shared for each other will live on into eternity. ©C. Dudley - 2010
Queen Elizabeth I's 'Favorite'
 
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