Learn how your comment data is processed. This portrait shows a very sad old lady, the shadow of death hangs over her and she has none of the glorious disguise, red hair, the wonderful clothes, but you see Elizabeth as she really was in the last few years of her life, when she can no longer hide.
This was indeed the beginning of the end for the 69-year-old queen.
Yes, it could well have caused poisoning. When my husband and I were in London we visited Westminster Abbey where Elizabeth I lies next to Mary Queen of Scots. i agree with you all she would have hated that portrait so it must have been done after her death i think she died of blood poisoning as that is most likely. It was carved in white marble and symbolically was smaller than the later monument that the new king erected for his mother Mary, Queen of Scots, on the south aisle. Stanley describes how Dean Andrews conducted the funeral service, before Elizabeth’s coffin was carried to the Henry VII’s chapel.
On the Abbey audio tour you can hear Elizabeth arguing with her half-sister, Mary .
Queen Elizabeth as Gloriana may have seemed to many to be immortal, but by the turn of the seventeenth century, she was beginning to display very real human frailty.
It is a beautiful painting though. . I came across a book written by Arthur Stanley, published in the 1880s.
Even her contemporaries speak of how ‘strange’ the common folk of the realm found the name of ‘king’ when James VI of Scotland was proclaimed as her successor, just hours after her demise. Ouch! Absolutely love this blog post.
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The fact also that she need to stuff cloths in her cheeks to stop them sagging inwards another sign of extreme weight loss.
Losing people you love is HARD.
There was no way for any of Elizabeth’s physicians to give a direct cause of death, ultimately because they didn’t know and she didn’t allow anyone to examine her, nor did she have a post-mortem. I’m actually wondering if the smallpox she caught early in her reign may have played a part in her death? Elizabeth was opposed by the pope, who refused to recognize her legitimacy, and by Spain, a Catholic nation that was at the height of its power. However, Stanley gives us a glimpse inside these hidden vaults. Accessed 10th March 2015. All it says is she’s delirious and depressed. There are a number of possible causes for Elizabeth’s death. So nobody could convince her that she was beautiful. Her reign is famous as ‘The Golden Age’, for its blooming of the arts with the origins of Renaissance drama and for producing the most famous playwrights of the era, such as William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe.
According to SatPrem, this was told to him by his guru, known as ‘The Mother’ of the Auroville/Aurobindo ashram in Pondicherry, India.
Exactly. Questions, questions, so many questions! She came out of her bedroom but was in mourning for Sir Robert for the rest of her life. I also think there is perhaps a touch of vanity in there too. It is not the end of our adventures, for I hope to take you exploring the vault in which Henry VII, Elizabeth of York and Edward VI all lie in a future blog. I’m astounded by the fact she lived to 70, or near enough! According to Sir Robert Carey ‘She shedd many teares and sighs, manifesting her innocence that she never gave consent to the death of that queene.’ (Borman, 2009, P389.) Melanie, I’m not entirely sure if this is true, but I believe Elizabeth had made a plaster cast made of her head. It is possible she was physically ill and maybe even suffering from depression so her body cold not heal its self on its own and she wouldn’t let her self be helped.
Very interesting well written information. Tick the "Email" box to give us permission to email you. How can one be sure considering that at that time she probably never had a proper examination of herself –. Also, I read she was not a virgin at all, just never married. Because I have never read this account before, I am going to include it in some detail.
START YOUR FREE TRIAL RIGHT NOW - CLICK HERE. I don’t understand. After 44 years of rule, Queen Elizabeth I of England dies, and King James VI of Scotland ascends to the throne, uniting England and Scotland under a single British monarch. The image rests atop Elizabeth’s coffin which is covered in purple velvet. During Elizabeth’s final years, with her health gradually deteriorating, close friends passing away and beauty fading, she started to suffer from bouts of melancholy and what we would call in the 21st century, depression. Was it the 25th? She was insanely jealous of her and her younger sister Mary. The date is uncertain; some sources citing c. 1610, others c. 1620-22. There’s always a reason for death, whether it’s heart failure, cancer, a stroke… Natural deaths of an old person are still always caused by something.
Elizabeth 1 wore her coronation ring on her wedding finger as a sign of her symbolic marriage to her country and subjects.
Her disorientation and behavior leading to her death seem indicative of such an infection.
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I just wanted to be there “in the moment “. She is an inspiration then, now & tomorrow. Her ladies were becoming exceedingly worried and tried to persuade her to allow a physician to examine her, but the queen vehemently refused on several occasions.
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yes i completely agree with you it would be wonderful if she had left a will or maybe had some secret children or something!
I don’t understand. There are various theories about her death, one being blood poisoning/sepsis which can be caused by a number of different things, including pneumonia, abdominal infection, kidney infection and bloodstream infection. My own belief is that she died of malnutrition caused in part by depression as pointed out and also the fact that she had a body image problem. That what I thought too, that she must be felt lonely for years and was unsure of her future life. Camden hypothesises many different potential reasons for her grief, but perhaps it was enough that she was old, indeed ancient for her time, and had seen many of those whom she had grown up with, trusted and loved, die before her.
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He was 41 years old. In foreign affairs, Elizabeth practiced a policy of strengthening England’s Protestant allies and dividing her foes. No one lives forever. Elizabeth had been depressed for some time, she was grieving for close friends she’d lost and she may well have had underlying health issues that added to her depression. Thanks though. After Mary’s death, Elizabeth survived several Catholic plots against her; although her ascension was greeted with approval by most of England’s lords, who were largely Protestant and hoped for greater religious tolerance under a Protestant queen.
By March, the queen fell into a ‘heavy dullness’; she would not speak, her throat was dry and sore, and she gave herself over to her ‘mediations’, allowing the archbishop to pray for her. Now I am intrigued to learn more!
Ovarian cancer ? Well, I went hunting, and thanks to some guidance from the Westminster Abbey library, I was led to a text that has given me far more than I was hoping for. As for pneumonia, yes, she might have been frail; however, a) there were no contemporary accounts of coughing or other symptoms, and b) for most of her life she was a very athletic outdoors person. Mary, who was brought up as a Catholic, enacted pro-Catholic legislation and made efforts to restore the pope to supremacy in England. When asked to have some sleep .she replied , if you saw what I see when I close my eye’s. I love finding out details that are new to me, no matter how small!
Stanley goes on to describe the lid being decorated with ‘narrow, moulded panelling’ made of ‘fine oak an inch think’, while the base was made of ‘inch elm’. Maybe her death was in 1602 but her burial was (as far as the Tudors are concerned), 1603.
After 44 years of rule, Queen Elizabeth I of England dies, and King James VI of Scotland ascends to the throne, uniting England and Scotland under a single British monarch. The two half-sisters, both daughters of Henry VIII, had a stormy relationship during Mary’s five-year reign. Not!! This site uses Akismet to reduce spam.
And, I have seen the plaster cast of her face. Her body was taken from Richmond to Whitehall Palace where it was held and watched over for three weeks before her lavish and imposing funeral. You are mistaken, Elizabeth I is in Westminster Abbey with her sister Mary Tudor, not Mary Queen of Scots.
This could be through the use of the popular lead-based make-up of the era which Elizabeth was so fond of. She didn’t want people to see the old Elizabeth, and I totally agree Elizabeth would have gone balastic at the above portrait.
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