![]() To learn more about the Tudor dynasty, we invite you to explore additional installments in this series of conversations, led by Dr. She is the author of several biographies on Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour. His fourteen-year-old daughter Elizabeth is living with the kings widow, Catherine Parr, and her new husband. Elizabeth Norton is a historian specializing in the queens of England and the Tudor period. Designed to inform curiosity as well as future travels, participants will come away with an increased knowledge of the marital policies of Tudor England's most famous virgin. The Temptation of Elizabeth Tudor by Elizabeth Norton - England, late 1547. Elizabeth Norton, this Conversation will outline and consider the marriage negotiations entered into by Elizabeth I during her long reign. ![]() Led by an expert on the Tudor period and the Queens of England, Dr. Elizabeth was inundated with suitors and often used their courtship to her advantage as she navigated the tangled political webs of 16th-century Europe. ![]() These men included her brother-in-law, Philip of Spain, two French princes, a Scandinavian king, and a childhood friend. In spite of her protestations that she desired to remain a virgin, she soon attracted numerous suitors, both at home and abroad. When Catherine dies a year later and Seymour is arrested for treason soon after, a scandal explodes. Queen Elizabeth I was expected to quickly marry and provide England with a king when she came to the throne in November 1558. ![]()
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