Breaking one of her ladies’ fingers – Mary, Queen of Scots, in a letter to Elizabeth I, wrote of Elizabeth injuring Mary Scudamore (née Shelton) after she’d secretly married Sir John Scudamore.Here are a few examples of her hot temper: She wrote gentle, consoling letters in her neatest writing to bereaved courtiers or their wives.”Ĭourtiers could bask in her sunshine, her favour, but they could also suffer her shouting, cursing and even violence. She fed Burghley with broth as he lay dying. Only the foolhardy approached her if she was in a foul mood. She had a vicious temper, attacking one of them with her fists and breaking the girl’s finger. In an article on his biography of Elizabeth I, historian John Guy wrote “She was vain and courted flattery she was jealous of her younger maids’ youth and beauty. ![]() Her godson, Sir John Harington, wrote of her temper, saying, “When she smiled, it was a pure sunshine that every one did choose to bask in but anon came a storm from a sudden gathering of clouds, and the thunder fell, in wondrous manner, on all alike.” Elizabeth reminds me of the words from a nursery rhyme I was told in my childhood: “When she was good, She was very good indeed, But when she was bad she was horrid.” ![]() ![]() Elizabeth I was the daughter of two hot-tempered individuals, Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, so it is little wonder that she had a temper.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |