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| | Articles - Elizabeth I of England (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18) |
 | | Elizabeth was the only surviving child of King Henry VIII by his second wife, Anne Boleyn, Marchioness of Pembroke, a former lady-in-waiting of Henry's first wife Queen Catherine of Aragon whom he secretly married sometime between the winter of 1532 and late January of 1533. |
 | | Henry certainly would have preferred a son to ensure the Tudor succession, but upon her birth, Elizabeth was the heiress presumptive to the throne of England. |
 | | Henry's last wife Catherine Parr helped reconcile the King with Elizabeth, and she, along with her half-sister, Mary, daughter of Catharine of Aragon, was reinstated in the line of succession after Prince Edward under the Act of Succession 1544. |
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