Princess ElizabethLady Elizabeth

Queen Elizabeth I(1533-1603)

Birth Announcement, Anne Boleyn to Lord Cobham

Hatfield Old Palace

Elizabeth at Hatfield

• Acquired by Henry VIII as nursery in 1538

• 1553 Elizabeth confined to Hatfield on Mary’s accession

Marguerite d’Angoulême,Queen of Navarre A Godly Medytacyon . . .Princess Elizabeth, translatorTranslated 1545Published 1548

Princess Elizabeth1546Attrib. to William ScrotsRoyal Collection

Thomas Seymour4th husband of Katherine Parr

Seymour and Princess Elizabeth

He wold com many mornyngs into the said Lady Elizabethschamber … And if she were up, he wold bid her good Morrow, and ax how she did, and strike hir upon the bak, or on the buttocks familiarly … And if she were in hir bed he wold put open the curteyns, and bid hir good morrow, and make as though he wold come at hir: And she wold go further in the bed, so that he could not com at hir; And one mornyng he strove to have kissed hir in hir BedOne tyme the [dowager] Quene, suspecting the often accesseof the Admirall to the Lady Elizabeth's Grace, cam sodenlyupon them, wher they were all alone, (he having her in his Armes)

Kate Astley, governess

Seymour after Katherine

• Plans to marry Elizabeth

• 1549 Arrested

– Conspired to marry Elizabeth

– Kidnap the King

– Depose the Protector

• Found guilty and executed

ElizabethAge 18, 1550Attr. to Levina Teerlinc.Yale Center for British Art.

Suspect in Wyatt Revolt against Mary, 1554

Elizabeth1555artist unknown

Hatfield Palace, Great Hall, 1840

Hatfield Palace Great Hall

Coronation PortraitCopy of 1559 work?

‘Coronation’ miniature~1570 or 1600, Hilliard

Coronation

William Cecil

Advisors

Thomas Radcliffe William Paulet

Advisors

Francis KnollesThomas Gresham (1519-79)Agent in the Netherlands

Favorites

Robert Dudley, 1575Christopher Hatton, 1580

Blanche Parry (ferch Harry) (1507-90) Servant through Life“With maiden Queen a maid did end my life”