Temptation of Elizabeth Tudor - Norton Elizabeth
Temptation of Elizabeth Tudor - Norton Elizabeth England, late 1547. His 14-year-old daughter Elizabeth is living with the old king's widow Catherine Parr and her new husband Thomas Seymour. Henry…
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Temptation of Elizabeth Tudor - Norton Elizabeth
England, late 1547. His 14-year-old daughter Elizabeth is living with the old king's widow Catherine Parr and her new husband Thomas Seymour. Henry VIII is dead.
When Catherine dies in autumn 1548 and Seymour is arrested for treason soon after, the scandal explodes into the open. Ambitious, charming and dangerous, Seymour begins an overt flirtation with Elizabeth that ends in her being sent away by Catherine. Alone and in dreadful danger, Elizabeth is closely questioned by the king's regency council: Was she still a virgin?
Was there a child? Had she promised to marry Seymour? In her replies, she shows the shrewdness and spirit she would later be famous for.
She survives the scandal. Thomas Seymour is not so lucky. The Seymour Scandal led to the creation of the Virgin Queen.
On hearing of Seymour's beheading, Elizabeth observed 'This day died a man of much wit, and very little