Even kings die eventually. So Elizabeth had Mary executed for plotting to assassinate Elizabeth, per the History of Parliament. 679215 Registered office: 1 London Bridge Street, London, SE1 9GF. The elder of King George VI's two children (both girls), Elizabeth became queen in 1952. She had been fearing her relation wanted to depose her and reestablish Catholicism. For further details of our complaints policy and to make a complaint please click here. No marriage and therefore, in those days — especially for a woman — no children. While publicly refusing to formally acknowledge him as her heir Elizabeth and her counsellors, particularly Robert Cecil, did begin to conduct a secret and coded correspondence with James so that his accession to the English throne was automatically proclaimed at her death in March 1603. "I will that a king succeed me and who but my kinsman the king of Scots," spoke Elizabeth, quoted by the UK's History Learning Site. 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Michelle Keegan's Mary Queen of Scots is convinced to kill Queen Elizabeth in Drunk History, Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO). The Tudor dynasty ended and passed to the Stuarts. Already James VI of Scotland, he was now James I of England and Ireland as well. Even virgin queens die eventually. All her life she never married and was so known as the "Virgin Queen" - although she was thought to have conducted relationships that may have contradict her percieved virginal status. Elizabeth died on March 24, 1603 at Richmond Palace and was succeeded by James I (James VI of Scotland), the son of Mary, Queen of Scots. King Henry wife No. Royalty being what it is, and national elections being what they weren't, succession was always an issue. View our online Press Pack. The queen was the daughter of Henry VIII and his second wife Anne Boleyn. The discovery of further treasonous plots involving Mary Stuart kept the succession in the spotlight throughout the period 1572-87. However, in 1607, her coffin was moved to the same location as her half-sister, Mary; a protestant princess to be interred alongside her Catholic half-sister. King Philip, who ascended the Spanish throne in 1556, acknowledged the new political reality and cultivated his sister-in-law. The truth about Queen Elizabeth I's successor, © 2020 Grunge.com. Marrying Dudley, the son and grandson of executed traitors, would have been unpopular and divisive; it is unclear whether Elizabeth ever really considered it, although many believed that this relationship was the true reason why she refused betrothal to anyone else. This link played a big part in the decision to execute her. A. McLaren, ‘The quest for a king’, Journal of British Studies 41 (2002), 259-90. If she kept people guessing, and played along with a potential successor, she might protect not only the throne of England but her own longevity. Had her uncle not abdicated the throne, Elizabeth still would have become queen as … 264, 285.) As the UK's Royal website tells us, Elizabeth I had the extremely mixed blessing of being born of the House of Tudor, the reigning royal family of England, which began with Henry VII in 1485. Rumour instead connected her with Sir Robert Dudley†, whom she appointed Master of the Horse upon her accession, and later created earl of Leicester. ii. And then, finally, Elizabeth, the Virgin Queen, Gloriana, etc. Royalty being what it is, and national elections being what they weren't, succession was always an issue. Once queen her prospective marriage became a matter of national importance and parliamentary debate because it was inseparable from the questions of who would succeed her on the throne and whether they would maintain the Protestant religion of the church established by the Elizabethan Settlement. Taking her place was Edward's older sister, Mary (the real Bloody Mary), for five years. By the mid-1560s Elizabeth had certainly ruled Dudley out. Elizabeth quashed parliamentary agitation by reminding a delegation from both Houses of the danger of being ‘a seconde parson as I have byn’, arguing that to limit the succession as they requested would entail ‘sum peryll unto yow, and certeyn dangere unto me’. Even though Henry VIII had later reinstated Mary and Elizabeth to the line of succession with the Third Succession Act, Edward decided on his first cousin once removed, Lady Jane Grey, as the next monarch. Who succeeded Queen Elizabeth I? News Corp is a network of leading companies in the worlds of diversified media, news, education, and information services. By the mid-sixteenth century it was customary that at the opening of Parliament Speakers would request confirmation of the ‘ancient liberties’ of the Commons, namely freedom of speech and ‘privilege’ from arrest during sessions.