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Queen Elizabeth Queen Elizabeth was born on September 7,1533 at Greenwich Palace near London. Her father was England's King Henry VIII; her mother was the king's second wife, Anne Boleyn. Elizabeth had an older half-sister, Mary, who was the daughter of the king's first wife, Catherine of Aragon. Several years later, when Anne was unable to birth a son, Henry rid of her. When Elizabeth was four years old, Katherine Champernowne became her governess. The well-educated Champernowne began teaching her astronomy, geography, history, math, French, Flemish, Italian, Spanish, and other subjects. Elizabeth was an excellent student. In 1540 Elizabeth's father married Anne of Cleves. Repelled by what he perceived as his bride's ugliness, Henry quickly had the marriage annulled and instead married Anne Boleyn's first cousin Katherine Howard. Katherine was very young - about fifteen - and something of a featherbrain, but she was kind to Elizabeth, who was surely appalled when, in a repetition of the past, the queen was arrested and charged with adultery. This time the charges were true. Queen Katherine was beheaded in 1542, when Elizabeth was seven years old. Katherine Howard's violent death seems to have elizabeth, queen, essex, years, katherine, elizabeth's, henry, anne, spanish, old, mary, marry, father, english, england, decision, age, without, wife, very, told, son, ships, robert, reigned, quickly, queen's, prince, one, once, never, monarch, married, later, king's