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“When asked if it was her wish for James VI of Scotland to inherit the crown, Elizabeth apparently, gestured with her hands, drawing a circle around her head to indicate a crown and confirm that this was her wish.” ( The Death of Elizabeth I) By the time succession arrangements were being made, Elizabeth’s illness had robbed her of her powers of speech. Elizabeth communicated her instructions for who would succeed her on the English throne with a hand gesture.Elizabeth lay speechless on the floor for four days before her servants finally managed to settle her into bed. It is said that Elizabeth resisted lying down out of fear that she would never rise again. Elizabeth’s emotional and physical ailments escalated to the point that she took to standing in her bedchamber up for 15 hours without assistance before collapsing onto the floor which her ladies-in-waiting had covered with cushions.Southwell proved to be an unreliable source after she converted to Catholicism following the Queen’s death.Ī genuine and realistic c.1595 portrait of queen Elizabeth I

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Elizabeth Southwell also reported that the Queen’s corpse was so full of noxious vapours that it exploded in her lead coffin.

Elizabeth Southwell, a lady-in-waiting, reported that the Queen was haunted by visions of her frail body, and that a playing card with a nail through its head was found on the Queen’s chair toward the end of her life.

Sir Robert Carey recorded that Elizabeth “shed many teares and sighs, manifesting her innocence that she never gave consent to the death of that queene.”

During her final days, Elizabeth expressed regret about ordering the execution of her cousin, Mary Queen of Scots.

Towards the end of her life, Elizabeth began to suffer from bouts of melancholy following the deaths of several of her close companions, including her long-serving lady-in-waiting Katherine Howard and former favourite, Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex.

Queen Elizabeth I: facts and myths Was Elizabeth I depressed? Some argue that this was a way to safeguard the Queen’s reputation as a virgin. The Queen’s Lady of the Bedchamber refused to allow Elizabeth’s body to be subject to a post-mortem. Historians believe this statement is apocryphal. Her rumoured last words were: “All my possessions for one moment of time.” GJ Meyer describes her as “a pathetic spectacle, all the more so because throughout her reign she has been vain to the point of childishness.” ( The Tudors: The Complete Story of England’s Most Notorious Dynasty)

At the time of her death she was reported to have a full inch of makeup on her face.īy this point, she had lost most of her teeth, suffered hair loss, refused to be attended to and bathed.

Visit the Queen's House in Greenwich Where did Elizabeth I die?Įlizabeth I died in Richmond Palace. Her doctors insisted that the ring had to be removed, and within a week Elizabeth died. This was due to the fact that she never had it removed during the 45 years of her reign. Close to the time of her death, Elizabeth’s coronation ring had grown into her flesh. Other proposed causes of death include pneumonia, streptococcus (infected tonsils), or cancer.ģ. This substance was classified as a poison 31 years after Elizabeth’s death.Ģ.

Some say that she may have died of blood poisoning, brought on by her use of a lead-based makeup known as “Venetian Ceruse” (or “the spirits of Saturn”). Before her death, Elizabeth refused permission for a post-mortem to be conducted, leaving the cause of her death forever shrouded in mystery. The cause of Elizabeth’s death remains a hotly contested subject.