Marriage and Succession

When Elizabeth the first have became the Queen, people started to wonder who will the Queen Marty to help her rule the country. Their worries about Elizabeth being the last dynasty it would be normal for the Queen to look for a husband to have a child with, to have a heir to the throne, otherwise Henry VII’s distant relative would take the throne after Queen’s death, putting the country into bitter civil war. 

In the early weeks of her reign, the advisors started looking for a husband for the Queen. From King of Spain up to Sit William Pickering. Sir William Pickering was confident that he would be picked as the husband of the Queen. However Queen Elizabeth didn’t see the urgency of getting married she preferred the single’s life. 

One reason why Elizabeth did not really intend on marrying was she didn’t want to make the same mistake as her sister Queen Mary who married a man who was not popular with the people of the country. Elizabeth and the ministers wanted to relinquish any power over English affairs. 

The rumours have been started that Elizabeth got engaged toPrince Eric of Sweden, which caused the country to be joyful and they made medals that has Queen Elizabeth and her companion on. Archduke Charles had a fair chance of becoming Queen’s husband however because he was a Catholic he couldn’t get married to Elizabeth as his suit was not popular by the Protestant element in Elizabeth’s Council.

Elizabeth was in love with her childhood best friend Lord Robert Dudley, her Master of Horse. She knew that her childhood friend values her for the real her and not only because she was the Queen. However their marriage had advantages and disadvantages: their would be no foreigners trying to take over the country although the people of this country could root as the noble had the chance of marrying the Queen the poeple would feel it’s unfair. 

One other reason why Dudley was not a suitable candidate was because firstly he was already married to a young girl any Robsart when he was seventeen. Also he is the son and grandson of the most hated men in the country Duke of Northumberland (father) who was executed for treason against her sister the Queen Mary. Dudley was imprisoned himself in the Tower for involvment in his father’s scheme to place Lady Jane Grey on the throne.  

Elizabeth wished that on her grave when she died would be written ‘A queen having lived and reigned such and such time, lived and died a virgin’ it would have come true to be knownas The Virgin Queen however her married Francis the French Catholic.