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Why did Elizabeth first refuse to marry throughout her life?

In July 1575, Queen Elizabeth I arrived at Kenilworth Castle on a luxurious visit planned by Robert Dadley, who spent a wealth to arrange concerts, theaters, fireworks and fictional water shows, with a single goal: the Queen’s hand asked for marriage. But despite the efforts, the wedding was not done, and Elizabeth never married anyone.

Love, politics and blood

Elizabeth I, the daughter of King Henry VIII, was the only woman who ruled England without getting married. Throughout her life, she rejected the political and societal pressures that she asked for a heir to have a preference for the “Virgin Queen” to remain.

Some believe that her relationship with Dodli was more than friendship, and that she may have thought about marrying him, but his intervention in a play in which he tried to push her towards marriage, angered her anger, and suddenly canceled the theatrical performance. Later, when Dadley married another woman, Elizabeth boycotted the ceremony and took time to tolerate him.

Personal and historical reasons

Elizabeth’s experience with marriage in her family was catastrophic: her father executed her mother, Anne Paulin, and her father’s wives witnessed killing or grateful in tragic circumstances. She was also witnessing the rule of her father’s wife, Catherine Bar, efficiently during the absence of the king, what was laid in her mind that the woman is able to rule without a man.

Some believe that Elizabeth has linked love and death.

Her symbolic marriage to England

Politically, Elizabeth refused to marry a foreigner for fear of external control over England, and from English because he would raise internal conflicts. Instead, she presented herself as a queen married to her homeland. In one of her speeches, she said: “I am married to the Kingdom of England.”

Technical monument immortalizes the story

On the occasion of the 450 -year anniversary of her visit to Kenilworth, the actress Lindsay Mandak held an exhibition entitled “The Mixed Game”, photographed Elizabeth as a luminer and Dadly Kadab, in the midst of a giant chess, an embodiment of the Queen’s political skills and emotional maneuvers that guaranteed her survival and judgment for more than 45 years.

Elizabeth may have refused to marry a personal decision, and perhaps the smartest political decision in her life. She ruled an iron fist, and she immortalized herself in memory as “the Virgin who married her homeland.”

(BBC)

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