Expert: Mark Smith - 3/24/2009

Question

"    Dear expert:
I am an English teacher in secondary school. Thank you to give me a time to answer my questions about the queen Elizabeth 1
1- Did Elizabeth's father was hate her?
2- Did Elizabeth's sister was put her in prison?
I will be very happy to answer me.
  thank you very much again"


Answer
Hello Mohammed.
No Henry VIII did not hate her, but he neglected her as she reminded him of her mother, Anne Boleyn whom King Henry had executed. Nevertheless even though the young Elizabeth spent much of the time away from her father he made sure she had a good education.
She was never imprisoned by her father. She was however held in the Tower of London for a few months by her elder half-sister Mary I in 1554 when she was 20 years old, under suspicion of treason. Nothing was proved so she was released.
Mark