The HAUNTING Death Mask Of Elizabeth I

One of the most influential and heroic Queens to ever rule England was Elizabeth I, the Tudor Monarch that her father Henry VIII would have been proud of. Elizabeth faced many challenges throughout her life, from questions about her strength due to fact she was a Queen and not a King, to the threats from the Spanish Armada that she managed to see off and defeat. She would throughout her reign execute many people who she believed were religious dissenters, but she would also execute Mary Queen of Scots, her cousin who had plotted to bring about her death and downfall. But Elizabeth in her final months of life was a shadow of her former self. Portraits showed her standing strong and tall and as if she had a hand on the world, but her final days were spent very differently. Following her death, she had a death mask cast of her face, which shows the haunting look of the Queen who by the time she died was suffering greatly. But what is the story of her death mask?

[@darlameeks]

I have always thought of the great poetic justice of Elizabeth Tudor's powerful reign when her father, King Henry VIII, was willing to murder his wives to have a male heir. He thought he needed a son to have a legacy. She was a better monarch than Henry in so many ways.

[@sarah_noodle]

I don’t know if she ever wrote about her true reasoning for it, but I feel like her decision to never marry was at least a little informed by her father’s repeated marriage debacles and the carnage they caused. I know it was also a political move because if she ever did marry, her (necessarily foreign) husband would have outranked her and England would have been under the control of another country’s monarch. But, I like to think she had a personal stake in it as well.

[@cinziapagano6494]

I agree with that. It's the irony of History

[@darlameeks]

@@sarah_noodle She famously said, "There are no Masters here, and only one Mistress!!"

[@jordangustke4001]

By today's standards she's still kind of a bad person.....

[@sarrhodes8277]

@@jordangustke4001 By today's standards all our ancestors should be wearing sackcloth and ashes - and we should be paying out of our own pockets for it all. Look - remember that just like nature was "red in tooth and claw" - so was history - and it was the nations with the smartest heads and the canniest armies who won the day. You cannot get past the fact that the standards of history were altogether different to the liberal apologism construct of today, and that if, God forbid, we were ever plunged back into a stone-age style competition for survival - not impossible given the nuclear threat - it would indeed be the toughest of us who would be the ones who got to write the history.

[@tesssanders7993]

"My Queen You must go to bed" "Little man, little man, if you saw such things in your bed as I see in mine, you would not ask me to go there"

[@janicem9225]

I believe a lot of her deeds were coming back to haunt her as she succumbed, and maybe other things. There's no other reason for her to have made that very disturbing statement.

[@sweethistortea]

That line is chilling.

[@JalaKamal]

0f course she didn’t looked the same. She had lost a lot of weight, her face in dead must had been haggard and wasted. No wonder as we know she was in pain, with fever, over anxious and extremity feeble. She was alone with her ghosts. She didn’t had her make up, her wing, her jewelry, her zest for life, her sparkling eyes. Gloriana, the Queen with a body of a weak and feeble woman with a heart and stomach of a King and of a King of England too, was no more…..She had a life full of danger and losses but what a Great life she had….

[@sylphofthewildwoods5518]

@tesssanders7993 My mind goes to the 1781oil painting by Swiss artist Henry Fuseli : *The* *Nightmare*

[@scottpreston5074]

Bed Bugs

[@elaineyoung9672]

I think you forgot to show the "haunting death mask". Lots of portraits and a brief look at what I assume is her effigy, but I would really like to see the death mask please!

[@georginaspencer2636]

Shot of it at 5.57

[@enidanenaid]

5:42

[@spiritmatter1553]

@@enidanenaid Appreciate the time stamp. It should have been repeated, shown on a split screen to compare with her portraits.

[@samsmom1491]

I checked and those are effigies based on the death mask. The death mask itself is not shown.

[@maggierobertson4518]

Ugh

[@mlr4524]

I've stood next to her tomb at Westminster Abbey. I was overcome with how tiny she was. It's was a very surreal experience.

[@Oldie699]

Me too it's very surreal.

[@toddjohnson271]

Mary I ironically buried undereath her.

[@nancydemoss2945]

​@@toddjohnson271Really? I'd never heard that. It befits Mary as she was, indeed, bloody.

[@GrumpyKitten375]

That was not her "death mask". It may have been her effigy tomb, but as she was clearly severely ill and emaciated, her death mask would look as such.....Interesting story, but this was not her death mask whatsoever.

[@myriamickx7969]

Indeed, what is shown is not an actual death mask. A death mask is made of plaster or wax poured directly on the deceased’s face. I have seen several, and they do look dead. Besides, the effigy that is shown here looks even younger than the latest portraits of QEI. In some of these portraits, she looks more aged and gaunt than on her effigy, which is only logical since she ate very little at the end of her life.

[@HK-gm8pe]

I always thought that Elizabeth actually died from depression...if you read how she was in the final weeks of her life it really much sounds like very deep depression...she refused to eat for example or sleep

[@alikamal3464]

@@HK-gm8pe yes I agree. she was very old for time as well mind you so her body was shutting down and without any medical help that worked. She refused to get up off a pillow she sat on for very long periods, in the weeks leading up to her death I remember reading somewhere.

[@MadHatterDJ-]

@@HK-gm8pe There’s a great video on here called Royal Autopsy. There’s a couple of episodes one is investigating the the death of Elizabeth I. You need a strong stomach to watch it but it’s very interesting.

[@VoodooLily0522]

All of the portraits are beautiful, but actually spending a few minutes looking at the death mask would have been nice.

[@vitroz]

If only we actually could get a good look at the mask on which this video is based?!?!

[@sheilatagg2699]

I imagine that the original mask hasn't survived as it was not made of anything sturdy. What we do have is a copy of the mask on her effigy.

[@samsmom1491]

@@sheilatagg2699 The effigy looks nothing like Elizabeth I would've looked in death. The title of the video indicates we will see the death mask and we don't. I love this channel, yet the title is deceptive.

[@Lornicopia]

I am amazed by the various portraits you have shown! Many of them I have never seen!

[@ava1234ish]

Thank you . . I've never heard of this death mask before. I also appreciate your narration. . . an easy voice to listen to . .good pace and lowish pitch . .Thank you

[@lianefehrle9921]

So interesting to hear. Thank you so much for all you do. I enjoy hearing about the history of England.

[@stillhere1425]

I wish the portraits would be in chronological order: young to old. Also, it would have been nice to know which portraits were from life, if any, and which posthumous, and to see the death mask from all angles and at length.

[@richmorris2870]

Where is the death mask now?

[@fabianwylie8707]

Many thanks for posting 🎉

[@lis7742]

Could you show us the death mask, please? I'm crying from this history. The last child in a strong line of alliances. Many, many years of highly calculated moving of pieces to the right places. Wars, deaths, intrigues, lies, loves, tragedies. So much, for the grand finale. Elizabeth was extremely intelligent and she remembered everything her mother, Anne Boleyn told her as a two year old, I'm sure of it. She chose to end the Tudor line. After all that intricate work. She ruled for much longer than I've been alive, and she brought a golden age to England. She's absolutely incredible. I recently learned about her story, and I am deeply, deeply moved.

[@stevecharters8965]

You sound overly emotional. Romanticised reinterpretations and speculations about the British monarchy are not history. A more accurate account is found in Sitwell's 'The Queens and the Hive'.

[@lis7742]

@@stevecharters8965 You sound really judging and boring.

[@pamplant3610]

The mask was shown.

[@SkyeID]

5:47 the death mask is shown

[@JarlOfSwot]

Elizabeth was a fascinating woman. She was quite complex and still somewhat of an enigma even today. The UK always seems to do much better when a queen is reigning for some reason, from Boudica on down.

[@manmaje3596]

She was 1 absolute female monarch.

[@randocalrissian347]

So interesting….as usual!

[@jegsthewegs]

If ever a person was destined to be a Monarch it was this strong, courageous Woman. I'm sure are times she must have been very lonely.

[@ur1cat]

I haven’t seen most of these pictures of Elizabeth 1. Thank you.

[@ladyshakari]

I think Elizabeth was afraid of childbirth after what happened to her step mom.

[@debbylou5729]

I think Elizabeth knew any man would abuse the power they would be given as her husband. She was wise as a serpent and realized young that her ideas were as good as anyone’s. She watched her mother be murdered by a man who gave up everything, including his religion, all the while professing his love. She understood that she would give up all power in defending her child. It would only be a liability in a kingdom where female rulers were an aberration i don’t know if it’s historically accurate, but the scene in ‘Elizabeth’ where she asks ‘whom she should marry?’ Sums it up nicely

[@ralphrichardlindsay]

She just knew that men would always try to take over control as those around her tried to do! So she became the Virgin Queen. Just do not know about the " virgin"!

[@ladyshakari]

@@debbylou5729 she had a very very close male friend in the bedroom next to her so I doubt she was a virgin with no sexual experience. They may have done some things just not everything.

[@jakegarvin7634]

Just goes to show you you can't get a better monarch than a Queen named Elizabeth R.I.P.

[@heraldeventsandfilms5970]

Bad case of Royal Arslikhan there. Peasant.

[@thhseeking]

@@heraldeventsandfilms5970 Treason!! Hanging, Drawing and Quartering for you!!! :P

[@cloggy010]

top well done!! thanx love from the Netherlands

[@sarahyarnton3322]

Love William 3rd & Mary 2nd

[@CassieTheMischief]

Lovely narration, great voice

[@robinhumphrey2692]

Good one!!

[@RinpochesRose]

Nice channel. I like the pink female icon with the crown. Thank you 🙂

[@ivorybow]

I also read once, that her teeth were so rotten and infected, that no one could bear to be close when she spoke. It is entirely possible she died of sepsis from deep dental infection.

[@normastone1044]

I've read that Elizabeth ate sparingly, but had quite a sweet tooth.

[@jamellfoster6029]

She inherited all of her Dad's good traits. She resembled him physically & possessed his strong, willful personality.

[@stevecharters8965]

Damning with faint praise. I wasn't aware Henry VIII had any good traits.

[@mysticalmargaret6105]

I think that Elizabeth's narrow face and large, expressive eyes were all her mother's, Anne Boleyn. She only inherited her father's coloring, the fair skin and ginger hair.

[@Zknwlf]

We saw everything but her genuine death mask? Still worth watching though and well done despite misleading title.

[@verenamaharajah6082]

Elizabeth had rotten teeth which made it too painful to eat. This probably hastened her death, a combination of infected teeth and gums and starvation. The lesson is - look after your teeth !

[@johnmortimer1308]

She enjoyed eating sweet sugary things

[@zuzuspetals38]

She also had lost a lot of weight before the death mask had been done

[@lwscijunkie]

I always wonder if those big ruffs were itchy....?

[@AnastaciaInCleveland]

Most likely because ruffs were so heavily starched, or they were held in place by wires. ~ Anastacia in Cleveland

[@CaptainSaveHoe]

Hardly got a glimpse of the death mask. Oh well.. But interesting story about loss, never really thought of that.

[@okiejammer2736]

Can you please add your cites and websites used as research where you got this death mask video info? Also, which one of these several sculpted-looking images is this death mask?

[@acousticsong-guitarco964]

I have tried to find anything on the death mask… I doubt it exists

[@neoandersonwick3263]

As far as I know Henry the 7th never met his granddaughter Elizabeth as he passed away well before her birth

[@Jessy928]

It’s a little insulting to your audience to give false information.

[@Nyrphame]

It is just an odd phrasing…or maybe a less common one to North American ears. The writer means “by” in its meaning of “beside” and not “through the agency of”. It scrambled my brain, too, at first, but it isn’t false, at least according to the Googleverse. She was originally placed in Henry VII’s vault, beside him, and then later moved.

[@Durpydurp4488]

@@Nyrphame thanks, I was thrown by that phrasing as well. So “she was moved by Henry VII” actually should have been phrased as “she was moved to be beside Henry VII” right? Because yeah they never met lol very poor phrasing on the narrator’s part. Words are important, everyone!

[@Lean_and_Swerve]

A lot of talk and some great portraits of Elizabeth but where is the death mask? I think we got a short glimpse but not enough. Can we actually look at if please?

[@scallopohare9431]

Very interesting. I did not know such a mask was made for her.

[@Oldie699]

She lived double the life expectancy of those days , that's good going.

[@farinshore8900]

Nice death mask. So grateful for having the opportunity to see it.

[@marciaspiegel5280]

You never showed the actual death mask.

[@lizryan6289]

Interesting.

[@cathylarkins9949]

I always heard Elizabeth I had a very bad periodontal/abscessed tooth and it caused her death…in those days a toothache/abscess killed a lot of people

[@mn1k174]

“Her body was placed into a vault by her grandfather King Henry 7th” ? She died in 1603 - HE died in 1509…..

[@AtticHaunt321]

By as in near or in proximity to. “Her body was placed into a vault NEAR her grandfather King Henry VII.”

[@rabyhook]

You know that the meaning of the word «by» in this case is «beside». She was placed into a vault by/beside her grandfather King Henry VII.

[@shaunsteele6926]

"by" as in "next to"

[@mn1k174]

Aha! Thought it was a bit odd! Thanks all for putting me straight 👍😊

[@irishrose90]

​@@mn1k174 I was confused too. 😂

[@Baskerville22]

Mary, Queen of Scots was Elizabeth's cousin, 'once removed'.

[@MsSkipperkim]

That didn't end well

[@jucadvgv3449]

have you ever noticed that most of gb's greatest/most influential rulers have been queens? bloodym (infamous), e1, e2, victoria? of course, in the kings column we have h8, but other than that it seems you have to go back in history a bit for great kings. i haven't paid much attention to other countries, but i have the impression that lots of them had mostly great kings. since i really don't know much about the history of those countries, if anyone knows differently, pls let me know.

[@jandrews6254]

Wouldn’t Elizabeth have been placed above Mary in their tomb, simply because of the order of their death rather than haul out Mary’s coffin and reorganise the tomb? Would it even have been able to accommodate the two side by side?

[@emperorofpluto]

Was watching this after the Mary Queen of Scots one and got confused.

[@debbylou5729]

This obsession with corpses is so strange to me. They’re meat sacks that rot. Like the videos, ‘this queen was left to rot for 400 years’. Uh, yeah, that’s what they’re doing wherever they are. No exceptions

[@artdanks4846]

@@debbylou5729 To Christians though, which Elizabeth was, the body is very important, because it was the Temple of God while living here on Earth, and will be Resurrected to eternal life (or eternal damnation) at the Final Judgment, when all will be resurrected and judged. That's why her tomb reads "in the hope of the Resurrection". (7:16)

[@debbylou5729]

@@artdanks4846 this quasi worship of the body in death while calling it disgusting in life is a purely Catholic philosophy. Almost everything was a ‘sin of the flesh’. You’ll be resurrected no matter where your corpse rotted

[@kymrawlins8099]

Originally she was buried opposite Mary but James I had her body moved and his mother Mary Queen of Scots placed in the position previously occupied by Elizabeth.

[@TheMogregory]

A rather misleading title.

[@graham76man]

I don't think for one minute that thing you showed us in an actual death mask. It looks more like the pre-carving for the monument that was created. It actually does look like the the paintings you showed in the videos. The both being based on the pictures of Elizabeth the first that you see today. James never actually met the Queen, so had no idea what she looked like. So the carving and the tomb were all done at his request. So Elizabeth today looks like what James Stuart thought she looked like. The one thing that I know that if you don't eat properly then the skin will contract and any fatty tissues around the mouth will go. She stuff in cloths to fill her mouth out. And you can't eat with cloth in your mouth. This is a queen that starved herself to death. All sorts of independent people at the time said that Elizabeth was a beautiful woman. But NO ONE could ever convince her of that fact. With all the clothes she wore and that beauty she was like a supermodel. And like them, on a diet that killed her.

[@debbylou5729]

Yeah, we care deeply about what you think

[@grahamappleyard6190]

@@debbylou5729 Are you using the Royal "WE" here that you think so high and mighty of yourself? Shall I start calling you Queen Debby? 👸 of the toilet perhaps😄

[@janicem9225]

She really wasn't that pretty. Lol At least, not after the smallpox affected her as it did. She was left with pox marks, hair loss, etc, and had to cake on the white lead makeup. Some of her later portraits look absolutely hideous, especially as the makeup ate away at her face. Yuck. Not that pretty later on.

[@janicem9225]

@@debbylou5729 You're what reminds people that pure evil DOES exist in this world. 👹 Obviously, just a man hating twat narcissist.... because that guy did nothing to you, but you had to show what a braindead zombie you actually are, and try to make him feel bad for trying to be a part of this channel, as though it's only for women, when it isn't. 🧟‍♀️ I bet when people see you coming, they literally run in the opposite direction because they see the ugliness on the inside AND outside, and that's why you're so angry. 🤣 And I see EVERY comment you make on this channel is utterly ludicrous and stupid......so THAT'S your problem.... you're simply a dum dum. ROFL

[@debbylou5729]

@@grahamappleyard6190 you have some serious problems, graham. It’s ok, I don’t value your opinion…..say what you want. It’s common for people who don’t understand things to lash out

[@deeds517]

I find her so Fascinating

[@leonardoravecca606]

Ma la maschera dov'è?

[@nanasnonsensegaming]

at 6:50 on the timeline of the video you said that "Today Elizabeth I is buried in Westminster Abbey, and her body was first placed in the Vault by her Grandfather King Henry the VII", is that meaning a Vault created for Henry the VII or a mis-statement? Henry the VII had passed years before her...

[@SarahlabyrinthLHC]

"By" meaning "next to" or "beside".

[@panowa8319]

The second portrait of Elizabeth I looks like the old Dolly Madison logo.

[@cherylhiggins4205]

Sad you were unable to actually show the death mask.

[@annjohnson6193]

Obviously, she carried lots of guilt over execution of Mary Queen of Scots.

[@joshuakampamba9061]

I wish she had children so that we could see her descendants today. 💕🇿🇲

[@tomchirillo1663]

They would be as ugly or worse than she was!

[@BriarMB13]

Some think she had bastards and we know who is theorized to be related to her through those figures.

[@janegardener1662]

@@BriarMB13 Fiction.

[@BriarMB13]

@@janegardener1662 correct, it's an unproven theory.

[@savinaking8637]

You can see her Aunts descendants, the one that got pregnant by Henry the eighth, he is z on the tv programme "The last leg", I can't remember his first name but his surname is Widdecombe. He had his family examined on "Who do you think you are".

[@johnsepulveda443]

I think you meant her navy defeated pretty sure she wasn’t on any of the ships that defeated the Spanish navy

[@cfrygirl]

Although she was a great Queen and gave peace to many, there were quite a few she did not. The Grey sisters, Jane, Katherine, and Mary Grey had terrible lives under the Tudors. Jane was executed by Mary I but what Elizabeth did to Katherine and Mary was so cruel. Especially Mary Grey, who had a disability.

[@toddjohnson271]

She was probably only less cruel in comparison. Monarchs are all tyrants.

[@artdanks4846]

This makes me so sad! I've always had very high regards and love for Elizabeth I, even though I'm American (but in heart and ancestry English). But I guess I never really paid attention to the last years of her life, and was not aware how depressed she became. Makes sense though. I just feel really bad for her. May she be in peace, as well as her sister Mary, and her cousin Mary.

[@acousticsong-guitarco964]

When doing some research on the so called death mask of Elisabeth 1, you actually don’t find anything, but the identical picture of the one shown in the clip. The mask is nowhere in a museum and there is not any information available. Anyone has found anything ?

[@sonjasleeper1511]

Where was the death mask?

[@pritiandharperitsadogslife4314]

Her death mask is beautiful

[@bjmartin5225]

I didn’t understand that either

[@austin12ascot]

So, where's the death mask?

[@jamellfoster6029]

Devereaux was also the grandson of Elizabeth's 1st cousin, Katherine Carey. Thus he was her 1st cousin twice removed.

[@debbylou5729]

So, barely a relative…

[@joelas87]

no she was NOT his mother; his mother was Lettice Knollys who was banned by the queen and because she married a second time in secret with none other than Robert Dudley; the queens fuck buddy! a Bevereaux step father

[@susanorr8348]

What is wrong with life as it has bbern lived? QEI was later diagnosed as having succumbed to tonsillitis potentially

[@theresistance0012]

I always thought those portraits were meant to look goofy but no, apparently those portraits were considered flattering bc he was worse irl??

[@sjfiet]

Strange to have the video about the death mask, then not actually show the mask. Click bait.

[@thhseeking]

06:50 - "her body was first placed in a vault by her grandfather"...say what? How old was Henry VII when he died? :P

[@patricialong5767]

If we are fortunate, we live long and then we die, even royalty, of course!

[@reinadegrillos]

Bad winds defeated the Spanish Armada, not Elizabeth. Lovely video, anyway, thank you.

[@jjenfield7444]

Sure. That’s why the Spanish lost twice….

[@molarmaven3264]

@@jjenfield7444ER I was a goddess, right?

[@jjenfield7444]

@@molarmaven3264 She was a very good diplomat, and incredibly intelligent. Her achievements given those horrible times are truly astonishing

[@pommiebears]

Bad winds? You really are going with that? Bad winds….😂 Rightio.

[@shaunsteele6926]

God favored the English

[@norwolf4765]

That is not a death mask. It may have started out as one , but it has been manipulated by human hands.

[@ce9916]

english herstory is fascianating

[@mySydan]

clickbait. No death mask to be seen.

[@tonyphilpott9500]

One thing to remember is that in the 16th century the divide on religious ideology was enormous. If you were a Protestant ruler then anyone who followed the Catholic faith was an enermy. If anyone who followed that faith and encouraged plots to dethrone and kill you then you eventually would have to take action. Mary Queen of Scots did not have a choice when she arrived in England. She had just done battle with her subjects and been defeated. If she had surrendered in Scotland she probably would have been assassinated. France didn't want her was she was a member of the powerful Guise family and the king and Queen Mother of France where having enough trouble controlling them without Mary's meddling. Mary's choices were severly limited and she went with the safest option of crossing into England. Elizabeth didn't want her and tried to get the Scots to take her back. She was saddled with a permanent threat to her throne and 19 years later after numerous plots and assassination attempts her council had had enough and called for her execution. Elizabeth prevaricated as she was inclined to do when she didn't want to make a decision she was not comfortable with. In the end after two months she signed the warrant but said it was to be held and not actioned. Her council sencing that she would change her mind again dispatched the warrant for Mary's execution. They were perilous times. You can't judge history by today standards. Elizabeth was a great Queen who had to live with difficult decisions.

[@noeraldinkabam]

Henry the eight hated women. He would have killed Elisabeth had he known she would have been grander than him. Henry the hate should have been his name.

[@cshartley101]

Yes, he hated them so much, he married six of them and screwed hundreds more. Nobody hates women and womanhood more than a modern day feminist.

[@annberlin5811]

She looks like Princess Anne

[@Tyler.i.81]

Scary looking

[@belladonnasmoonstardust6474]

Yet no pictures of the mask 🤦

[@susanorr8348]

Why would QEII disavow her ancestor whom she claimed ruled as a despot-i don’t understand that whatever the outcome your forebears are your forebears

[@annettegrant6423]

Where is the death mask

[@patmullarkey7659]

But I thought she gave orders not to do an autopsy.

[@eduardpena6580]

What was the purpose of a death mask?

[@malabhargava]

How do you mean her body was first placed in a vault by her grandfather?

[@davidmills4862]

Well barely 5% of this is actualy about the death mask

[@TheAlexis4444]

So, where is the death mask????

[@MsSkipperkim]

I feel sorry for her. Women were used as breed mares back then. But Henry Fitzroy died at the age of 15 as well. Is there something about being a 15 yo make Tudor that is possibly deathly?

[@davidhawkins5329]

I will ask God's infinite mercy on both of them, and the wives Henry desecrated ...

[@brentmichael4770]

She was a puppet, the military had to double in size and staff itself with 100s of experts in the war department. She did not make any of the war decisions. They had higher ranking men that made those decisions. She was simply a bloodline to them at the time. She joined the rest of the serial killers in her family in ordering the deaths of other human beings. A Tudor is no different than a serial killer. They had others' lives in their hands, and they took them from them. She admitted she didn't even make the decision to kill Mary, just like she can admit she didn't make any of the major decisions.

[@bullit2]

While the history is interesting, shouldn’t these videos feature more examples of the actual mask?

[@EdwinNikkels]

Photos of the mask, tomb, etc. in 5, 4, 3, 2,... Oh wait. Clickbaited again.

[@faithbulemore9748]

So where’s the death mask?

[@shieldmaidensvarden5229]

At the beginning of the video I liked and subscribed but then I took a step back. I couldn't disagree more. How can you say what you say about her relaying on her death mask ? For God's sake she was dead. The death mask isn't ab indicator she was lesser than she is. Just a lot of assumptions and fake news.

[@COBO2]

Would Henry the eighth have been proud of Elizabeth.

[@jennifersaar1611]

He would have been fiercely proud that she was such an excellent queen. But he probably would've been horrified that she never married or had children.

[@silversurfer640]

Courtney Bonnick 2 Yes surely he would have been. Although he was a monster.

[@Random_Alt]

Did she not have eyebrows?

[@graceg3250]

A lot of redheads and blondes do not have visible eyebrows. Plus, it may have been a style to not have them?

[@janegardener1662]

Eyebrows can grow grey or fall out as one ages. Some people draw them back in, others don't.

[@Random_Alt]

@graceg3250 yes, very true. I hadn't really noticed it before, but seeing all these portraits at once made me wonder.

[@shaunsteele6926]

yes people with naturally light hair will often have sparse eyebrows that are barely visible

[@stconstable]

She lost the hair on her head early in her reign. I forget the illness. Smallpox?

[@melissalove2463]

Even though Queen Elizabeth was old & unwell when she died she still looks like a strong woman in her death mask !

[@mysticalmargaret6105]

Except that that wasn't her death mask. It was never shown in this video.

[@jackiemack8653]

The death mask was Mary Queen of Scots.

[@stevecharters8965]

Your use of 'she', particularly in the introduction is misleading as it implies a direct agency that did not exist: e.g. 'she defeated the armada', 'she executed many people...'. Shakespeare was arguably a Jacobean rather than Elizabethan dramatist.

[@Nana-vi4rd]

I think it's terrible how Mary I has been deemed such a brutal Queen all these years. Yes, Mary I did try to bring her country back to the Catholic church. But England had been Catholic for centuries. Her father angry that the Pope would not annul his first marriage. Broke with Rome, declaring himself the head of the church. I don't he meant to really change the region just exclude the Pope from how it was run. Mary was declare a bastard. Yet she did become Queen, and those around her giving her advice were the ones who got her to do the burnings and torture's of the Protestants. They should be the ones blamed not Mary. She thought having been raised Catholic she was doing the right thing. She married upon the advice of those around to marry Phillip of Spain. Because they favored Phillip over Mary to rule. And though he was blocked from doing so. They knew Mary would always do what he advised her to do. And they were sure after Mary died that he would be able to assume the throne. But he didn't. Mary I as Queen should have better treated in death then what she was. And is still treated horribly even in death.

[@janegardener1662]

Approximately 300 people were executed for heresy over the five years of Mary I’s reign. That's 60 per year, or 5 people burned at the stake every month.

[@Durpydurp4488]

I strongly disagree. She went unhinged and ruled like a tyrant, just as her father did. You can put the blame of any ruler on their council, “oh it wasn’t their fault, they just got fooled by everyone around them!” Uh, a good ruler doesn’t get fooled over and over and over again. A good ruler doesn’t burn people alive. Mary burned innocent people to death over a religious preference and Elizabeth didn’t. Simple as that.

[@accountholder169]

A lot of falsehoods in this !!

[@martzenvandenbroek]

Ravaged by white lead

[@Nicole-kt5qf]

Her death mask didn't even look that old

[@janina8559]

Henry the 8th would have been pissed at her for ending the Tudor Line of succession. That was what he was obsessed with and I believe it was her way of punishing him for killing her mother!

[@stevecharters8965]

Speculation. Her father was dead and could know nothing about it. That Elizabeth never married was political expediency and not a wilful psychological abberation. She named James VI of Scotland as her heir - his great-grandmother Margaret was Henry VIII's older sister and thus a Tudor. The Jacobean period saw significant advances in literature, science and the arts, expansion in America, unification with Scotland and peace with Europe.

[@denisecaringer4726]

Pointless story without showing the death mask. Does it exist?