![]() He also broke with the Catholic Church when the Pope refused to validate his marriage to Anne. Henry VIII had cast aside his universally respected Catholic wife, Catherine of Aragon, and their daughter, Mary, for Anne. Her redheaded daughter was considered the “bastard child of a whore.” Though Anne had bewitched the King, she was despised by most of the court and the public. Elizabeth I’s difficult childhoodĮlizabeth, daughter of the mercurial King Henry VIII and his second wife, Anne Boleyn, was born on September 7, 1533, at Greenwich Palace. But the two cousins’ tortured relationship was determined long before, during childhoods so dissimilar and defining that they would inform both Queens’ characters-and seal Mary’s tragic fate. Their decades’ long verbal boxing match over the English crown would end with Mary’s beheading at Fotheringhay Castle-with Elizabeth’s blessing-in 1587. In the other, Mary: feminine, charming, romantic and reckless. In one castle was Elizabeth, the childless “virgin” queen: bawdy, brilliant, tactical and cynical. Queen Elizabeth I of England and Mary, Queen of Scots were two of the greatest, most legendary rivals in recorded history-although they never even met. Elizabeth I of England and Mary, Queen of Scots. ![]()
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