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  • OH NEVER MIND

  • HEY, THE NARRATOR THAT MIGHT BE CARY ELWES

  • Holy shoot that girl`s mind is like some kind of super computer. I will never be able to be like that. Super forgiving of her father for killing her mother too (Or maybe she is just hoping that her dad will let her become Queen.). "Matchless and most kind father". Need I say more ?

  • that red head child reminded me about my younger sister. my best friend. and

    ELISABETH NEVER FORGOT HER MOTHER

  • this historical video is great is was this show of PBS or the history channel?

  • whats the movie called??

  • we saw this video in history

  • Is this a movie or Documental?

  • Isn't it ironic how Anne Boleyn was hated and for the most part Elizabeth was loved? I think this is why Anne Boleyn is so amazing. Anne Boleyn means a great deal to me.

  • Could anyone tell me the bibliographical details of this video so i can cite it in a school project?

  • Haha I only watched this because my name is Elizabeth. But now that I watch this I feel quite bad for her :'(

  • Raising Elizabeth in the crucible of parental neglect and emotional starvation, while enriching her mind and sense of self-sufficiency, prepared her not only for the throne but also imho, for the barrage of abuse she suffered as a teenager. She must have felt incredibly alone. No wonder she opted to stay that way.

  • The whore, the bastard, Henry's stuff..what made these men soooooo angry? I mean, it's one thing to have women issues, but geez. What a bunch of creeps. Unfortunately, this legacy lives on.

  • I wonder if Henry VIII ever came to realize what a mistake he made in killing her mother. When he looked at Elizabeth I hope he thought of Anne Boleyn and regretted having her killed. If Anne Boleyn had lived they could have had more brilliant children and maybe the coveted son he wanted. Its too bad he never got to see Elizabeth become the great Queen she became. I hope he regretted the rest.

  • @PaulineGeorge26 haha anne could never had another child. she was rhesus negative !

  • @PaulineGeorge26 This is the romantic view of circumstances from todays social values. It is unlikey that he ever cared or gave Anne a second thought after her death.

  • your account was my revision for summer exams LOL!

  • King Henry had some severe commitment issues.....

  • I am confused

  • @AeropostalFreak2016 thats what i said then saw your comment and laughed

  • Im playing her, in street theatre for the royal wedding

  • I don't think she was told how her mother died until after her father's death...

  • @Bloodshotshatterbone Wait what is the great hall and why couldn't she eat in it???

  • Wow! I've been studying french for a while and I still struggle to write a sentence in it! My spelling is terrible!

  • Henry may have been a VERY VERY bad husband to his wives but he seemed to be an ok Dad.

  • It shows a lot of info. Was she raped?!?!?!?!

  • @angaaa1506 She was deemed a virgin by the Court physicians...

  • @barbiedoll811 I don't think that's entirely true either. That locket ring is proof of that. However, I think Elizabeth was more focused on her own life and trying to survive during her sister's reign. If anything, Elizabeth never forgot her mother, never completley blocked Anne Boleyn from her memory. I think she just had the attitiude of the fact that her mother was gone, and there was nothing that she, or anybody else could do about it.

  • @scorpianofthesun Yes, and she also saw what happened to people who fought the throne, on any issue at all. It was a survival trait to be silent on matters she could not change, and by the time she was an adult, it was ingrained.

  • Edward and Elizabeth were good friends as indicated by letters they wrote to each other. Both were educated in protestant ways and found it difficult to deal with their elder sister Mary.

  • Love the scene where little Elizabeth's at prayer!

  • @barbiedoll811 Im sure Elizabeth also had doubts about the negative controversy around her mother. i don't think she really believed all the accusations made against her.

  • RIP Anne Boleyn!

  • Mary Boleyn, Elizabeth's aunt on her mom's side died when she was 10. Would've been interesting if Elizabeth had met her. Mary Boleyn lived out the rest of her life happily away from court. She would've had mixed feeling seeing and talking to her niece if it happened,she would've seen Anne in her eyes.

  • When Elizabeth was 6 she was shown naked to the French ambassadors! She was offered as a bride to one of their princes and they needed to be sure the girl had no blemishes or unsightly spots on her. Must've been scary and humiliating for a sensitive child. Ever sine the Seymour scandal, she hardly trusted anyone, especially men.

  • Thumbs up if u love "The Tudors"

  • Vote up if u liked Laoise Murray's portrayal of young Elizabeth in "The Tudors"

  • Hope doesn't have sweaty fingers,handeling that precious book

  • and they wonder why the kings and queens of old were such harsh bastards

    tough times, tough times...

  • she's my favourite queen of all time. =)

  • 7:01 Jane Seymour shouldn't be in that picture. by the time Edward was that old she was dead.

  • @SophieGizzy that picture was made like that. Catherine Parr posed for the picture, but, they put Jane's head on, as Henry thought of Jane as his "One true Queen". OK?!

  • Arghhh get your sweaty hands off that book, Starkey!

  • This guy's eyebrows are crazy!

  • is this apropriate for scool?

  • if elizabeth's mother was only married to henry, how's it possible for her to have had a stepfather?

  • @avastacia Her stepfather was the husband of Katherine Parr.

    Katherine Parr was the last wife of Henry VIII. Katherine Parr's husband was

    Sir Thomas Seymour, (Jane Seymour's brother). Katherine Parr was married previously to older invalid husbands. Thomas Seymour was her chance for

    a 'passionate' relationship.

  • @Saffron49 thanks for informing me *^_^*

  • @avastacia Because Catherine Parr was her stepmother, when Thomas Seymour married her that made him Elizabeth's stepfather even if they were not related by blood.

  • @HistoryLover1550 thanks for telling me *^_^*

  • @avastacia Your welcome.

  • I love the way he says: "or and expert solver of crossword puzzles." lol

  • double translation? Nice! Trying that right now to help learn french.

  • Elizabeth was so much like her mother. But a better version of her mother.

  • @cXcarolayXc Like Anne (Natalie Dormer) said to Henry in the last episode of "The Tudors" "Though she is like me in so many ways, she is not intemperant as I was . . ."

  • Anyone else felt a little tingle of apprehension when David handles that one-of-a-kind, 400 year old book with his bare hands...?

  • Elizabeth's life wasn't nearly as mentally and emotionally crushing as Mary's was...but that's not to say that Elizabeth's life wasn't hard; just less so than Mary's.

  • @gOtHiCxAnGeLxox Because Elizabeth didn't dwell in her bastardy, while Mary let it overrun her. That was why Mary was so heartless and bitter.

  • @cXcarolayXc - Elizabeth was young and ignorant when she was proclaimed a bastard while Mary was not - thus making the blow to Mary's mentality and pride ever more crushing. Also, throughout her life Elizabeth had support whereas Mary did had next to none. I'm not here to argue with you, it's just my opinion and I can see that ours differ greatly. I respect that.

  • @gOtHiCxAnGeLxox I respect your opinion too. Mary's situation was better than Elizabeth as the years moved on. Henry neglected Elizabeth also.

  • @cXcarolayXc It's so nice to see a polite understanding between two different opinions on YouTube. Only on the history videos, right?

  • @ladycontrary725 lol. Yes, it is. Only on history videos. =)

  • Elizabeth handwrote what looks to be 200 pages of multilingual prose? Why don't they publish that book and show it to other 12 year olds and say, "Check it out. Someone your age did this. Bet ya feel stupid right about now."

  • @RLviddy yeah. when i was 12, i read about her, and i was like `dammit, i am the top in my class and top in my level, but i can barely translate a composition from english to chinese. she translated frikkin Cicero!'

  • her mother was a English girl who went to the french court and became french and Elizabeth was a french girl (cause that was her upbringing being fluent in french) who went to the English court and became English very odd how life can go

  • great upload, i just wish that i could watch them in order

  • Bess was a hottie.

  • henry's was the ultimate traitor to his woman but yet he killed ppl for just that when he commited treason by disowning his daughters i've been betrayed by my boyfriends but one thing they wouldn't do is disown my babies

  • she was sexually abused? How can this be? She was called the Virgin Queen.

  • @shevdiam5 he didn't rape her.

    also, just because she was CALLED the virgin queen doesn't mean she was actually a virgin.

  • @PaleLittleGirl1 Exactly!

  • How can 9 people dislike this? This is amazing.

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  • To think if she live to day...I bet Lizz would be a VERY HIGH ON THE RANK bussiness woman..I bet be boss for sure..but am not of what job though

  • Elizabeth was too young to understand what was happening!

  • Given all that she endured from her birth to her teen years,it is quite a miracle that Queen Elizabeth wasn't batshit mad.

  • kat ashley was the closest thing Elizabeth ever had to a mother.

  • @twilight4evr100 They had a very loving relationship :)

  • omg i totally luv starkey ....it was him who got me interested in history

  • on Elizabeths death bed, a ring fell from her finger and opend to show a tiny portrait of her mother. she seemed to have airbrushed her death but always thought of her when she looked at her hand! Elizabeth died from make up poisening because make up was very thick + harsh in those days and seeped into her blood stream... bet you didnt know that!!!

  • @lollypop1800  Historians believe it was Elizabeth of York, not Anne Boleyn.

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  • OMG, I LOVED THIS PROGRAM

  • that is so sad

  • I don't like Elizabeth as a queen, but I think that she should be pitied as a child.

  • @evaperonfan I'm confused.I thought you said Elizabeth was a great queen.Not judging you on whatever your opinion is,I'm just curious.

  • That's why he said 'seemed' I think Elizabeth did the smartest thing possible in her situation, she didn't try to defend her mother because Henry seemed to have no problem abusing the women in his life that he was supposed to protect.

  • Elizabeth 1 - Sizzling Firecrotch :P

  • ur hilarious

  • So true! There is other evidence as well to suggest that Elizabeth treasure her Mom's memory. I don't know why historian always insist otherwise.

  • I agree in that point, taking aware Elizabeth I was full of memories in all her life. What she was by herself it was by her memories fairly.

  • She would be a minor. In todays society, if a 14 year old girl consented to sex it is still considered abuse. There is now dispute about the picture in the ring.

    Some believe it is Elizabeth of York, Henry VIII's mother. I guess we will never know.

  • In todays society, yes, but back then they got married off at twelve. Does that mean all woman then were sexually abused?

  • @annelieseB Yes.

  • what is the title of this documentary?

  • @justinemarcelo24 Elizabeth.

  • Stepfather sexually abused her? No one knows whether it was her choice or not...he can't say that it was definitely sexual abuse - makes it sound like we know for sure what went on in the bedroom...

  • @annelieseB I dont even understand how she had a step father if her mother was dead

  • It was her last stepmother (Katherine Parr) who then married Thomas Seymour. I wouldn't count that as a stepfather, but hey.

  • He was the husband of her last stepmother, Catherine Parr (who was Henry's 6th wife and remarried after Henry's death).

  • @HannahbananaG11 i guess  that was her uncle,

  • why can't I embed? I would love to share.

  • .....

    Wish I could write like that.... ;_;

  • woah which step-father sexual abused her? I didn't know that...

  • Thomas Seymor, Catherine Parr's husband after Elizabeth's father

  • @TheCrazyNinjaChick henry the 8th last wife was katherine parr and after he died she was with thomas seymour and he sexual abused her :(

  • that was never proven  but if it were true that would explain alot

  • I DIDT know that King Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn were Elizabeths the first parents!

  • He mentions only a few, but Elizabeth (by 1578) could speak, read and write in English, Latin, Greek, Spanish, French, Italian, Scots and Flemish.

    "Shee speaketh Greeke, Latine, Italian, French, Spanish, Scots [Scozese], Flemish and English; Al these tongues shee speaketh very wel, and eloquent."

    -- Florio, tutor to earl of Southampton

  • WOW she had great handwriting it looks like a printer did it, but it actually was her amazing

  • I wish I was a child genious like Elizabeth

  • how many wives does King Henry VIII?

  • eight. jane seymour was not the prettiest i think (in terms of the paintings)

  • No, he had SIX wives, not eight.

  • thick

  • my bad. i always mix up his name number with his wife number. it gets confusing. and that was rude pessimist.

  • :P Nice one

  • what is a ll of this bipolar discussion about??!!

  • What sort of stuff did Elizabeth write in that book/gift? Thank you! [wow she had really good handwriting!!]

  • I cant belive that elizabeth was a theat to her family.

  • Bipolar

  • Hey, I just realized it's Elizabeth I's birthday today. She'd be 476 if she were still alive....

  • oh.

  • wow thats old lol x

  • @theproplady yeh but remember the cival war and all that then again she would probably have won

  • @theproplady Thank fuck she's dead huh?. Horrible bitch.

  • @theproplady She is still alive.

  • @theproplady

    I AM

    THANK YOU..

    GOD BLESS YOU.

  • huh?? elizabeth was sexually abused by that guy>?? i though they both had a thing for each other! hm...okay..

  • If Elizabeth did have an attraction to Seymour that does not excuse his behaviour. She after all was a young teenage girl who had had a unhappy, traumatic childhood. She had lost the father who she had worshipped but had ignored her for most of her life. Her step father took advantage of the crush she had on him for his own sexual and political ends.

  • Henry is such a dick for doing that to both his daughters. Whatever the relationship he had with mothers shouldn't have let cloud his judgment on the children. Be mad at the mother if you must but don't behave the same way to the child because it's not their fault.

  • right !

  • i didnt know her sister would send to the tower

  • @67hope The battle and dislike between Anne Boleyn and Katherine of Aragon was carried on to their daughters. Mary felt the same way about Elizabeth as her mom did to Anne. It would've been impossible for her not to. Also Anne forced mary to work as a maid in Elizabeth's nursery and Anne was quite cruel to her too. Mary alwys carried grudges against Anne and Elizabeth when she got older.

  • @HistoryLover1550 i think anne's cruelness towards mary is greatly exaggerated. anne did try to make amends with mary but mary refused to recognize anne as queen. it was henry who appointed mary as a lady-in-waiting to elizabeth. it was henry who appointed all of elizabeth's maids and it was he who appointed lady bryant as elizabeth's governess

  • @dstewart2394 You've a point there, thanks for raising this fact.

  • @dstewart2394 Anne had Marys ears regularly boxed (slapped), by her ladys if she didn't call Elizabeth princess or her Queen (just one example). Anne was not a nice step mother an cruel to Mary But she was a fantastic mother to her own Child Elizabeth, I do agree about Henry he was a bad father as well as King. All his Wifes were great Queens in their own right, and his children suffered because of their father. Ultimatly though it was the people who suffered, Catholics/Protestants inTudor times

  • @100percentbabeLOL okay i am really confused I am suppose to write an essay on this but I don't get it at all! And you seem to understand some of it. so could you please help me out? Was she beaten by her father??? I am only 13 and do not understand one bit of this! Did her mother really do that stuff. And wait is Mary her step sister or half sister?? And was henry really that bad of a dad????

  • @AeropostalFreak2016 If girls didn't obey their fathers in those days yes they would get punished, Edward had a whipping boy just like Henry VII when he was a child. This whipping boy as they were called would take any punishiment including the cane & beatings for Any wrong behavouir of the prince (Edward). Henry VII was good educator of all his children including Mary & Elizabeth, which was unusual for girls at the time they had the best Tutors. However he was cruel to both Mary Elizabeth.Cont-

  • @100percentbabeLOL Which stuff?, boxing of the ears yes. Ann hated Mary & likewise, Mary was seperated & NEVER saw her mother for the last six years of her mothers life because of Henry VII. Katherine of Aragon would not denounce her marriage as invalid as Henry VII wanted because that would declare Mary as a Barstard & lose Mary her right to the throne. After Katherine died Mary was forced to sign a document declaring her parents marriage invalid, he did the same to Elizabeth, feel free Msg me

  • @100percentbabeLOL They were half sisters, they just had different Mothers but the same Father.

  • The little girl who played her was so cute=)

  • Anne was so intelligent becuase her mother was the same way. I hate how here they make it seem like Elizabeth just completely forgot about mother. And Henry did not want anything to do with her, or Mary. He's an ass. Catherine and Anne were both such strong powerful woman. any man today would their hearts completely to woman of such greatness and Henry treated them like crap. The rest of Henry's wives after these two were just dull and not as bright as Catherine and Anne. They all fell flat.

  • You mean Elizabeth was so intelligent.. lol.Catherine and Anne were the best. True feminists. I'm not one to take sides, both had terrible ends. Today for some reason being a bastard doesn't seem to be a problem. I mean, why do people fuss over whether she was illegitimate or not.. Anne and Henry got married under "their new religion" - after people got divorced, the kids never should have been declared "illegit" - that's stupid. She ruled whether or not she was legit.. it's done. History.

  • not all henry's kids were declared illegitimate- only elizabeth and that was done after her mother was beheaded. henry was truly a cruel father. he declared elizabeth as an illegitimate child b/c she was conceived due to a relationship b/w henry and anne before the marriage and that fact gave him a chance to disinherit elizabeth, but later it all meant nothing, as u said, simply b/c mary on her deathbed signed a document declaring elizabeth as the next ruling monarch

  • They fell flat because they were mindful of keeping their heads. Except for Katherine Howard, she was young and loose.

  • that's true also i believe i read once in a book abt henry's last wife Katherine Parr that henry was madly in love with anne, as an old sick man he began talking to katherine parr abt her and regreting the fact that he had beheaded her

  • in high school i took Latin and my teacher used the double translation method.

    it really is one of the most difficult things to do.

    i remember almost everything i was taught, so i guess it works.

  • What is the double translation method? How does it work? And what are its advantages and disadvantages? Thank-you!

  • my teacher would make us translate 1 or 2 paragraphs from Latin into English and she would let us use the Latin-English dictionary. next class she would make us translate the English translation back into Latin, but we could not use the Latin-English dictionary.

    it takes FOREVER, but really helps you learn the vocabulary.

  • an example:

    ana albukhshi, mistakhdim il-youtube.

    english: I'm Albukhshi, a youtube user

    translate back: ana albukhshi, mistakhdim il-youtube

    it takes forever, but its effective.

  • I didn't know she was sexually abused.

  • I love Elizabeth I think she was an amazing queen and quite a complex person everytime i see that film elizabeth it makes me want to scream nooooo thats not right the director has no clue about this womans life he made her seem weak , and the film was not historically accurate why can't they just make a film and do her life and reign justice.

  • I don't get why people started the Bloody Mary thing. I mean can someone tell me?

  • Mary was given that nickname because she killed a lot of Protestants, as she wanted to convert England again into Catholicism, ruled by the Roman Church. Her father, Henry VIII, had earlier created the Protestant Church in England, an institution separated from the Pope of Rome, in order to get the divorce from Catherine of Aragon, and be able to marry Anne Boleyn, after Catherine could not give him a boy to success the throne. Catherine of Aragon was deeply Catholic and Mary's mother.

  • Contrary to popular beleif Elizabeth had powerful and loyal allies.They made certain Elizabeth would get her birth right.Mary was an evil person and more like her father and with so much Hatred in her heart she happily killed those whom opposed the Catholic .But Elizabeth was very much like her mother.She had an open mind on the right's of her subjects choose the chose their own faith.

  • Elizabeth was 2 years and 8 months old when her mother died. Given that she hadn't lived with her mother and hadn't even seen her often, it's unlikely that she grew up with any clear memories of her.

  • If I'd been Elizabeth, I'd have hated Henry for taking away my mom!

  • Love David Starkey's Documentaries. Thanks.

  • people say man decide the gender of birth. so its actually the fathers fault.

  • more than just "people say..." it is a law of genetics...

  • its genetic-women can only produce X chromosomed eggs; men can make X or Y chromosomed sperm. X or Y will pair up with the egg's X, to make XX (female), or XY (male). there is theoretically a 1:1 ratio for male and female (per punett's square).

    so yeah, its henry's fault; he should have hung himself rather than kill Anne XD

  • Cont:

    this is for RedMoonAi in case anyone cares to know :)

  • i totally agree

  • some man still believe that woman deciedes child's sex

  • they dunno better :P

    but to be fair, its 50/50-it was a probability messup that led to the misfortune on the women, not the women themselves,

    so yeah, its still technically Henry's fault-he can't wriggle out of this one :P

  • note that elisabeth's new tutor states elisabeth "is exempt from female weakness". women were not seen as mens's equal back then, and men are free from flaws...thats why women bear the brunt of abuse. plus henry was a king, so he is untouchable and blameless.

  • yeah, I know.

    but I must poke at the guy-he deserves it...

    besides, where I come from, a king is just a first among equals XD

  • you're so smart

  • not really-I just read and learn.

    you can pull off the same stunt with a little education.

  • @Albukhshi i am soooooo 100% with you

  • @Albukhshi you have to remember it was the mid-1500's though, DNA tests didn't exist then....

  • @angelchi1500

    that's a given, DNA wasn't even discovered till 1869 (and testing a century or more later); Hindsight is a bitch, isn't it?