Queen Elizabeth I

This essay is the biography of Queen Elizabeth I. Describes in great detail about the war between protestants and catholics within England, and tells of King Henry the 8th, Elizabeth's father. It goes in depth into the rivalry between Mary and Elizabeth and the struggle for the throne.
Elizabeth Tudor was born on September 7th 1533 at Greenwich palace to parents Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, King and Queen of England. England had undergone many changes for the birth of Elizabeth to occur. Anne Boleyn was Henry's 2nd wife. His first wife, Catherine of Aragon, was unable to bear him a son and instead gave birth to Mary, Elizabeth's older half-sister. Henry was determined to have a male heir to the throne and with his determination, he asked the Pope to annul his marriage to Catherine of Aragon, as so he could marry Anne Boleyn who he hoped would bear him a son. England at the time was devoutly Catholic and King Henry, in a fit of anger, declared himself Supreme Head of the Church of England, and thus breaking away from the Catholic Church completely. …