Q 01/05

Who was Elizabeth I's mother?

A) Anne Boleyn

B) Catherine of Aragon

C) Jane Seymour

D) Catherine Howard

Answer · why

A) Anne Boleyn

She was beheaded when Elizabeth was two years and eight months old.

Q 02/05

The princess was named after her two grandmothers, who were?

A) Elizabeth Stafford and Elizabeth Parr

B) Elizabeth Tudor and Elizabeth Neville

C) Elizabeth of York and Elizabeth Howard

D) Elizabeth Woodville and Elizabeth Blount

Answer · why

C) Elizabeth of York and Elizabeth Howard

Archbishop Cranmer stood as one of her godparents at Greenwich in September 1533.

Q 03/05

How old was Elizabeth when her mother was executed?

A) Five years and a day

B) Six months and a week

C) Two years and eight months

D) Nine years and a half

Answer · why

C) Two years and eight months

She was promptly declared illegitimate and struck from the succession, restored only when she was ten.

Q 04/05

Which governess, appointed in 1537, taught the young Elizabeth French, Dutch, Italian and Spanish?

A) Kat Ashley

B) Blanche Parry

C) Lady Darcy

D) Margaret Bryan

Answer · why

A) Kat Ashley

Born Catherine Champernowne, she remained Elizabeth's friend until her death in 1565.

Q 05/05

At 12, Elizabeth I translated whose Prayers or Meditations into Italian, Latin and French as a gift for her father?

A) Erasmus's

B) Thomas Cranmer's

C) Catherine Parr's

D) Margaret Beaufort's

Answer · why

C) Catherine Parr's

A translation of Tacitus in her own hand was identified at Lambeth Palace Library in 2019.