Sha Lala Hallingquest

Sha’lala Hallingquest

1st Period

English 4 Notes

March 16, 2015

Monarch Notes

Elizabeth II 1952-Present

Elizabeth was born on April 21, 1926. She is the eldest daughter of George VI and Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon. She was married to Philip Mountbatten, her distant cousin in 1947. They had four children.
“She is the first monarch to send her children to boarding schools in order to remove them from the ever-probing media”
She has reigned for forty-six years, and appears capable of remaining on the throne for quite some time.
“Elizabeth is, by far, the best known of these, and is the most widely traveled head of state in the world. Her ascension was accompanied by constitutional innovation; each independent, self-governing country proclaimed Elizabeth, Queen of their individual state.”
The indivisibility of the crown was formally abandoned by statue in 1953, and “Head of The Commonwealth” was added to the long list of royal titles which she possesses.
Elizabeth’s travels have won the adulation of her subjects; she is greeted with honest enthusiasm and warm regard with each visit abroad. She managed to maintain a division between her public and private life.
Elizabeth has a strong sense of duty and diligence and dispatches her queenly business with great candor, efficiency and dignity. Elizabeth was like her father; raised the character of the monarchy through her actions. Unfortunately, the actions of her children have tarnished the royal name.

Henry VIII 1509-1547

The second son of King Henry VII and Elizabeth of York was born on 28 June 1491 at Greenwich. After his elder brother Arthur died he became heir to the English throne in 1502.
After his father died 1509 he became King Henry VII. He was only 18 years old. He was allowed to marry his brother’s widow, Catherine of Aragon.
Henry VIII’s early military campaigns began when he joined Pope Julius league against France in 1511. Henry was known as the “father of the Royal Navy”. “He also built the first naval dock in Britain at Portsmouth and in 1546 he established the Navy Board.”
Henry was worried that he wouldn’t be able to have a male heir. So he asked the cardinal to appeal to Pope Clement VII for an annulment. It became clear the he wanted to marry Anne Boleyn. The Holy Roman Emperor Charles V – the pope refused.
“In 1533 henry VIII broke with the church and married the now pregnant Anne Boleyn in a secret ceremony. Henry was excommunicated by the pope.”
Henry VIII was head of the Church of England. This act brought him much needed wealth. Anne gave birth to a girl. “Henry had grown tired of her and after two further pregnancies ended in miscarriages, she was arrested in 1536 on trumped up charges of adultery and publicly beheaded at the Tower of London.”
Henry married for the third time to Jane Seymour, who gave birth to his son but she died after childbirth. Their son name was Edward. “Henry blamed Cromwell for this mismatch and soon afterwards had him executed for treason.”
In Henry’s final years he reigned with physical decline. “In 1540, the aging King married the teenage Catherine Howard. Their marriage was short lived. It was alleged that she had a previous relationship with Henry’s courtiers. Catherine was executed for adultery and treason in 1542”
His final marriage was with Catherine Parr. Henry VIII died on January 28, 1547. He was succeeded by his son Edward VI. “He was buried next to Jane Seymour in St. George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle.”