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For other uses, see Elizabeth I (disambiguation), Elizabeth of England (disambiguation), and Elizabeth Tudor (disambiguation).

Elizabeth I (7 September &#;&#; 24 March )^[b] was Queen of England and Ireland from 17 November until her death in She was the last monarch of the House of Tudor.

Elizabeth was the only surviving child of Henry VIII and his second wife, Anne Boleyn. When Elizabeth was two years old, her parents' marriage was annulled, her mother was executed, and Elizabeth was declared illegitimate.

Henry restored her to the line of succession when she was 10, via the Third Succession Act After Henry's death in , Elizabeth's younger half-brother Edward VI ruled until his own death in , bequeathing the crown to a Protestant cousin, Lady Jane Grey, and ignoring the claims of his two half-sisters, the CatholicMary and the younger Elizabeth, in spi