{"product_id":"2940015830590","title":"MEMOIRS OF THE COURT OF QUEEN ELIZABETH","description":"MEMOIRS OF THE COURT OF QUEEN ELIZABETH.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVOL. I.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1533 TO 1536.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBirth of Elizabeth.--Circumstances attending the marriage of her\u003cbr\u003eparents.--Public entry of Anne Boleyn into London.--Pageants\u003cbr\u003eexhibited.--Baptism of Elizabeth.--Eminent persons present.--Proposal of\u003cbr\u003emarriage between Elizabeth and a French prince.--Progress of the\u003cbr\u003ereformation.--Henry persecutes both parties.--Death of Catherine of\u003cbr\u003eArragon.--Disgrace of Anne Boleyn.--Her death.--Confesses an obstacle to\u003cbr\u003eher marriage.--Particulars on this subject.--Elizabeth declared\u003cbr\u003eillegitimate.--Letter of lady Bryan respecting her.--The king marries\u003cbr\u003eJane Seymour.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn the 7th of September 1533, at the royal palace of Greenwich in Kent,\u003cbr\u003ewas born, under circumstances as peculiar as her after-life proved\u003cbr\u003eeventful and illustrious, ELIZABETH daughter of king Henry VIII. and his\u003cbr\u003equeen Anne Boleyn.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDelays and difficulties equally grievous to the impetuous temper of the\u003cbr\u003eman and the despotic habits of the prince, had for years obstructed\u003cbr\u003eHenry in the execution of his favourite project of repudiating, on the\u003cbr\u003eplea of their too near alliance, a wife who had ceased to find favor in\u003cbr\u003ehis sight, and substituting on her throne the youthful beauty who had\u003cbr\u003ecaptivated his imagination. At length his passion and his impatience had\u003cbr\u003earrived at a pitch capable of bearing down every obstacle. With that\u003cbr\u003econtempt of decorum which he displayed so remarkably in some former, and\u003cbr\u003emany later transactions of his life, he caused his private marriage with\u003cbr\u003eAnne Boleyn to precede the sentence of divorce which he had resolved\u003cbr\u003ethat his clergy should pronounce against Catherine of Arragon; and no\u003cbr\u003esooner had this judicial ceremony taken place, than the new queen was\u003cbr\u003eopenly exhibited as such in the face of the court and the nation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn unusual ostentation of magnificence appears to have attended the\u003cbr\u003ecelebration of these august nuptials. The fondness of the king for pomp\u003cbr\u003eand pageantry was at all times excessive, and on this occasion his love\u003cbr\u003eand his pride would equally conspire to prompt an extraordinary display.\u003cbr\u003eAnne, too, a vain, ambitious, and light-minded woman, was probably\u003cbr\u003egreedy of this kind of homage from her princely lover; and the very\u003cbr\u003econsciousness of the dubious, inauspicious, or disgraceful circumstances\u003cbr\u003eattending their union, might secretly augment the anxiety of the royal\u003cbr\u003epair to dazzle and impose by the magnificence of their public\u003cbr\u003eappearance. Only once before, since the Norman conquest, had a king of\u003cbr\u003eEngland stooped from his dignity to elevate a private gentlewoman and a\u003cbr\u003esubject to a partnership of his bed and throne; and the bitter\u003cbr\u003eanimosities between the queen's relations on one side, and the princes\u003cbr\u003eof the blood and great nobles on the other, which had agitated the reign\u003cbr\u003eof Edward IV., and contributed to bring destruction on the heads of his\u003cbr\u003ehelpless orphans, stood as a strong warning against a repetition of the\u003cbr\u003eexperiment.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47121252876528,"sku":"2940015830590","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940015830590","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}