Queen Elizabethdied on September 8at the age of 96 at Balmoral Castle, her beloved country estate in Scotland. Her eldest son, nowKing Charles III, hasled the royal family, the nation and the world in honoring her legacy and ushering in a new era that is likely to present growing challen...
Elizabeth I (7 September 1533 – 24 March 1603)[b] was Queen of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death in 1603. She was the last monarch of the House of Tudor. Elizabeth was the only surviving child of Henry VIII and his second wife, Anne Boleyn. When Elizabeth ...
and final, husband, Thomas Seymour, Baron Seymour of Sudeley. Kateryn Parr was widowed for a third time with the death of Henry VIII in January 1547. By May of the same year, Queen Kateryn was married to the new king Edward VI’s uncle, Thomas Seymour, Lord High Admiral of England and...
King Edward was the first to be buried here in January 1066. From then until 1760, some 13 kings of England - including Henry V and Henry VII, four reigning queens including Elizabeth I, 11 queen consorts and two other queens, including Mary Queen of Scots ...
Jane Seymour, third wife of King Henry VIII of England and mother of King Edward VI. She succeeded—where Henry’s previous wives had failed—in providing a legitimate male heir to the throne. The future Edward VI was born on October 12, 1537, but Jane d
Henry VII was the first in a series of English monarchs that changed the history of England. The Tudor monarchs included Henry VII, Henry VIII, and Elizabeth I. By the time Elizabeth's reign came to an end, England was a world power with a first class navy. It had also taken the fir...
Birth of Elizabeth Henry discovered that Anne Boleyn was pregnant. As it was important that the child should not be classed as illegitimate, arrangements were made for Henry and Anne to get married. King Charles V of Spain threatened to invade England if the marriage took place, but Henry ...
Edward VII's mother was Queen Victoria (1819–1901). She married Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1819–1861) in 1840. Connection Through King Christian IX of Denmark Elizabeth and Philip are also second cousins, once removed, through King Christian IX of Denmark, who ruled from 1863...
Elizabeth’smotherwas beheaded in May of 1536 in order for King Henry VIII third wife, due to the result of any of his former wives not having borne any sons to take the throne. At the age of 25, Elizabeth was a rather tall and well-poisedwoman; when she lacked in feminine warmth, ...
She was married to Sir Henry Cheyne (Cheyney or Cheney) of Shurland who was created Baron Cheney of Toddington by Queen Elizabeth. He was “the extravagant Lord Cheney” who tore down his ancestral home, Peivre, and built a mansion. Henry was born on 31 May 1540 to Sir Thomas Cheyne ...