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Elizabeth was NOT a virgin.


Elizabeth was definitely not a virgin.
If you look her up in the Royal Family tree she is recorded as having a baby that died the same day it was born.

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Link, please.

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http://www.britroyals.com/royals1.htm

cut and paste it. I'm not sure how to make it clickable.

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That was Elizabeth's brother who died at one day old.

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You're right.
I read it wrong.

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Well, good ole Henry probably had a hard time keeping track of his wives and children, too!

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There wa an intersting documentary on Viasat history wich stated the possibility that Elizabeth did have a child while people thought she was dying because of a disease thhat caused her belly to grow bigger but she supposedly gave the baby away ( she was not married you know)i cannot remember who they said the father was I can't remember if it was Licester

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I thought that was her sister, Mary, who supposedly died of a cancerous tumor of the stomach??? Either way, the history of Royalty ever intrigues us.

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When she died, someone was quoted as complaining she was as wasped waisted as when she took the throne. I've been reading about her, I've always suspected she was not a virgin, I now believe she was.

It was her best card to play at world politics - who would she marry and make King of England? She was too smart a woman and knew better than to throw that card away. She had small pox at 30 and thought she was dying and asked her councilors to name Liechester her heir when she woke. There were always rumors about the extent of intimatcy between she and Dudley. But when she thought she was dying from small pox, she told Cecil (Lord Burghley) they had never done the deed - a death bed confession.

It was her sister marry Mary who thought she was pregnant but was dying from cancer.

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Can you imagine that I spent half an hour searching for a royal family tree on the internet because I wanted to try and follow the line of generation from Elisabeth I. to Elisabeth II.? After a while I realized that "Virgin Queen" of course meant that she had no children and therefore no direct descendants. Gave me a good laugh at my own dullness... *lol*

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Can you imagine that I spent half an hour searching for a royal family tree on the internet because I wanted to try and follow the line of generation from Elisabeth I. to Elisabeth II.? After a while I realized that "Virgin Queen" of course meant that she had no children and therefore no direct descendants. Gave me a good laugh at my own dullness... *lol*





Direct descendants – no. But the present Queen is distantly related to the Tudor dynasty. For example – Elizabeth I’s successor was James VI of Scotland (who became James I of England in 1603). James and Elizabeth were related through their connection to Henry VII (James’s great grandfather and Elizabeth’s grandfather). In 1714, James’s great grandson acceded to the throne as George I (of the house of Hanover) and the present Queen claims decent from him. So the link is there, albeit very distant! But certainly a line did not continue via a child of Elizabeth’s and the idea that she ever had a child is very hard to back up and can be dismissed owing to a lack of contemporary evidence. That hasn’t stopped some (often wild) theories being raised about the matter!




‘Noli me tangere; for Caesar's I am’

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But what's with all the queens "favourites" I always assumed they were doing her some "favours" you know?

- Why I'm Saying ha-what, ha-what, ha-way?

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Elizabeth's (Tudor) crown went to James I (Stuart), (James VI of Scotland, Mary Queen of Scots son.)

The Stuarts and the Tudors aren't ancestors of Elizabeth II. She is a Windsor (Saxe-Coburg and Gotha) descended from Queen Victoria (House of Hanover) and Prince Albert. King George V changed the family name during WWI to cut ties with Germany.

James II (Stuart) was deposed in the rebellion that put William (of Orange) and Mary on the throne. (Catholics versus Protestants)

William III and Mary II mark the transition from the personal rule of the House of Stuart to the parliamentary rule of the House of Hanover.

Upon the death of Queen Anne the monarchy passed to George I of the House of Hanover and eventually to Queen Victoria who married Prince Albert, who are the ancestors of Elizabeth II.

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Yes, she was.

She was examined on her death and was still a virgin.

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