Welcome to Tudors Dynasty Podcast.

I'm your host, Rebecca Larson, owner of tutorsdynasty.com, and welcome to Queen Elizabeth

Month on the show.

Elizabeth. Elizabeth Tudor has always been on the back burner for me. While I love the fact that she is the daughter of King Henry the 8th and Anne Boleyn,

I have never been as interested in her reign as I have been in her fathers.

My views on Queen Elizabeth of England often make

me an outcast in my own community. My belief is that the adult Elizabeth, the Queen of England,

was not a very nice person. She shared a lot of the same qualities as her father. Now before you start

sending me hate messages, please let me explain why I believe she wasn't a very nice person.

Like her father, Elizabeth, imprisoned those who had a connection to the throne for marrying without permission.

That's understandable.

What I do not understand is how a woman, who chose not to marry, would hold it against those closest to her.

I plan to write an article about the topic, so I can't go too much into detail,

but there is a reason why so many close to her married secretly.

They knew that the queen would never approve their marriage.

To anyone.

Let's just take Robert Dudley, Earl of Lester, and Lettuce Knowles as an example.

Lester understood that as the favorite of the queen, that she expected to have him all to herself.

Elizabeth had made it clear that she could not marry him, and he knew that she would never approve a marriage, let alone to her cousin.

Fortunately for Lester, the queen eventually

forgave him, but Lettuce was not so lucky. Elizabeth never forgave her for falling in love with her

Robin, her eyes, as she called him. Another one that comes to mind is Elizabeth, or Bess, Throck

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