Queen Elizabeth,The Third child of Tudor's dynasty

Eighteen miles up the Thames from Tilbury lies Greenwich, where Elizabeth's story began. Along the same strech the Lord Myer and the alderman of London made a pleasant passage in ceremonial barges on Wednesday, September 10,1533. Their destination, was Greenwich, to attend the christening at Grey Friars Church of a baby girl with a wisp of red hair, born the previous Sunday to Queen Anne Boleyn and King Henry VIII, who was disappointed but the new Princess was christened with all royal pomp. Thomas Cranner, Arcbishop of Canterbury, stood as her godfather. In the play of henry VIII which is attributed to Shakespere. Accused of treason to Henry, Anne Boleyn went to the block on Tower

Green on a May morning in 1536. After six years of King Edward's throne. Elizabeth's half sister, Mary Tudor, daughter of Catherine of Aragon, cameto the throne as an ardent Cathoric.

On the rainy Sunday of 1554,Elizabeth was taken by bargr to Traitor'sStairs. At sight of the portcullis of Traitors' Gate

Though unconvinced of Elizabeth innocence, Queen Mary declined to heed the advisers who wish to executed her sister. After two months of uncertainty, Elizabeth was released from the Tower and confined in an old loyal palace at Woodstock. On an idyllic spring day, eight miles Northwest of oxford the little town of Woodstock slumbers with it memories and its ghosts. For nearly stands the entrance to Blenheim Palace, where Sir Winston Churchill was born. Not far away from the churchyard of the village of Bladon, he lies buried. Great beeches mottled the ground with shadows as I strode across fields toward the

Fiver Glyme and the site of the palace where the young princess Elizabeth had been kept a prisoner. I contended with a heard of red Devon cattle for a sight of the spot, marked now only by a stone cairn. S contemporary historian reported she scratched a verse with a diamond on the windowpane at Woodstock: “Much suspected,  by me. Nothing proved can be. Quote Elizabeth, prisoner.”
       In the spring of 1555 Mary had Elizabeth brought from Woodstock to Hampton Court, where she remained in the close custody for a few weeks. At length Elizabeth was allowed to move to Hatfield, where she had spent much of her youth. Captive a rose-bowered seclusion, Elizabeth while away the hours in the Old palace at Hatfied during Mary’s reign. When in November, 1558, mary died, Elizabeth’s childhood friend Robert Dudley galloped here to her sidet o cry “Long live the Queen!”. In

such a plight a young woman, burdened with the care of state, drew upon her own inner wisdom and became the first master politician of Europe. Events in Europe had been building up. In 1572 Wikipedia on course of religious war. The mantle of Protestant leadership was falling upon Elizabeth’s shoulders. Fate, however , have moved to alter the situation. Mary married her cousin henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, and gave birth to a son, James. But she tired of Darnley, and fell in love with the Earl of Bothwell,who helped plot the murder of her ailing husband, on the night of February 9, 1567. Driven out of Scotlsnd by her irritate subjects, Mary took refuge to England. Elizabeth found her cousin ‘an acute embarrassment’. To give mary liberty was the jeopardy to her safety, Mary involved herself plotted the English Queen’s assassination. Parlament demanded the Queen of Scots’ life. On February 8, 1587 after Elizabeth had Mary removed from to Fotheringhay in Northamptonshire and placed on trial for treason, mary of Scotland was beheaded.