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The Affair of Thomas Seymour and Princess Elizabeth. Soon after Henry VIII died on 28 January 1547 and Edward VI, became king at age nine, Catherine Parr, Henry’s widow, married Thomas Seymour, uncle of Edward VI, with whom she had had an affair prior to her marriage with Henry VIII. As brother of the Lord Protector, Edward Seymour, 1st Duke ...
The young princess and her step-father, Thomas Seymour, were intertwined in a scandal that led to his downfall and shaped the Virgin Queen she would become. The story of sex, love, politics and power that almost brought down the teenage Elizabeth Tudor, a decade before she came to the throne.
In 1547, the 14-year-old future Queen Elizabeth I is living with her step-mother Queen Catherine Parr and her new husband Thomas Seymour, uncle to Elizabeth's half-brother King Edward VI. But when Seymour begins an overt flirtation with Elizabeth, she is sent away by Catherine. Later, when Seymour is arrested for treason, Elizabeth and Seymour ...
The Seymour Scandal, as the episode has been dubbed, saw Catherine’s husband, Thomas Seymour, make advances on Elizabeth as part of a wider plot to seize the throne – a potentially deadly mix of sexual intrigue, power and conspiracy. Princess Elizabeth. Henry VIII died in 1547, leaving the crown to his 9-year-old son, the new King Edward VI.
Thomas Seymour was found guilty of High Treason and executed on March 10 1549. The scandal terrified the young Elizabeth and taught her a valuable lesson. From the time the scandal erupted Elizabeth dressed in a sombre fashion and behaved in a prim and virtuous fashion as befitted a virtuous Protestant young lady.
Elizabeth, aged fourteen, became embroiled in a dangerous game of flirtation. Mrs Astley tried to intervene, complaining to Katherine that Seymour had entered Elizabeth’s bedchamber before she was up, and tickled her in bed. Katherine refused to see any harm in it and tried to defuse the situation by joining in the romps – even, on one ...
Elizabeth I died on 24 March 1603 and was buried at Westminster Abbey in the vault of her grandfather Henry VII. She was moved in 1606 to her present resting place, a tomb in the Lady Chapel of Westminster Abbey which she shares with her half-sister Mary I. King James I spent over £11,000 on Elizabeth I's lavish funeral and he also arranged for a white marble monument to be built.
