elizabeth early life

• Elizabeth spoke French, Italian, Latin, and Greek
• Roger Ascham described Elizabeth as "Exempt from female weakness, endowed with Masculine powers of Application"
• When Edward is born, Elizabeth loses her title and becomes Lady Elizabeth
• Elizabeth is provided with a household of her own and a governess
• In 1543-44, the Act of Succession places Edward and Mary ahead of Elizabeth in line to the throne
• Elizabeth meets Henry VIII infrequently, but their interactions are described as pleasant and friendly
• Catherine Parr's influence on Elizabeth:

  • Nursed Henry in his later years
  • Persuaded her to bring back her daughter
  • Sympathetic to protestant reform
  • Married Thomas Seymour and brought Elizabeth up in Chelsea
  • Thomas Seymour was flirtatious with Elizabeth
  • Elizabeth was sent away
  • Catherine Parr remained friendly with Elizabeth until her death by childbirth
• In 1548, after the death of his wife, Thomas Seymour planned to marry Elizabeth and abduct Edward VI
• Thomas Seymour, Kat Ashley, and Thomas Parry were arrested as part of the plot, with Kat Ashley being Elizabeth's steward and Thomas Parry her Governess
• Elizabeth was interrogated as part of the investigation,into the somserset plot
• The charge against Thomas seymour was marrying a royal heir without the consent of the privy council, leading to their execution by the privy council in 1549
• Eliabeths childhood taught her to be cautious but did not giver her leadership skills

  She witnessed the disposability of married women among her father’s 6 marriages 
• Thomas Seymour Executed by privy council 1549
• Kat ashley becomes First lady of the Bedchamber 1558
• Mary Placed Elizabeth under house arrest in oxfordshire ,anniversary of mothers execution 17 May 1554
• Elizabeth sent to the tower for her involvement in wyatt scandal by mary