What were some of the major events that influenced Queen Elizabeth Is life?
Answer Hello Jarie. The events of her early years that influenced her life were mostly to do with her parents and religion. She was deeply affected by the fate of her mother, Anne Boleyn and her father’s turbulent married life. It has been suggested that she associated marriage and close personal relationships with death, which is why she never married. These feelings were reinforced at the age of 14/15 when, after King Henry’s death, she was living with her stepmother Katherine Parr who had married Lord Seymour. Seymour began to pester her and it was even thought that he had seduced her. But after he was accused of treason and executed the young Elizabeth was again faced with the death of someone close and possibly again thoughts of love and sex equalling death. Elizabeth also saw the severe problems created by extremism, by both Catholics and Protestants, in religion and strove as Queen to steer a middle path in religious matters. The relationship betwen Elizabeth and her elder half-
