Elizabeth's Succession
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- Created on: 27-05-13 10:38
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- Elizabeth's Succession
- Constantly harassed by Privy Council over a marriage and heir
- Elizabeth happy without a husband
- A 'Second Person' would be victim of plots to remove them, like she was.
- Elizabeth happy without a husband
- 1st marriage negotiation
- Duke of Anjou 1570/1
- Catholic
- Privy Council persuaded against marrying a French Catholic
- Duke of Anjou 1570/1
- 2nd neogtiation
- Duke of Alencon 1572
- Continued for a decade
- Small French man
- Smallpox scars
- Her 'frog'
- Negotiations gradually waned
- Duke of Alencon 1572
- Emotional connection with Leicester
- Cecil outraged by this
- Legal consequences; Leicester's previous wife
- Grey sisters also potential heirs
- Both imprisoned by Elizabeth for marrying without her permission
- Both dead by 1578
- Philip unhappy with Scottish or French heir
- Possibly affected by sexual abuse by Thomas Seymour
- Constantly harassed by Privy Council over a marriage and heir
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