thisfalconwhite:ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY 7 September 1533: Elizabeth I is born.On 7 September, bet
thisfalconwhite: ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY 7 September 1533: Elizabeth I is born. On 7 September, between three and four o’clock in the afternoon, Queen Anne Boleyn was delivered of a daughter at Greenwich Palace. Henry VIII and his second queen put on a brave face, refusing to show their undoubted disappointment that the child was not the longed-for son and heir. Although the jousts and other planned entertainments were cancelled, a Te Deum was sung in the new princess’s honor and a lavish christening ceremony was planned for the following Wednesday. The infant was named Elizabeth, in honor of both Henry and Anne’s mothers. Anne Boleyn immediately sent out the letters she had prepared to announce the birth of her first child, with one addition: “prince” was modified to “princes[s].”: Right trusted and well-beloved, we greet you well. And where as it hath pleased the goodness of Almighty God, of his infinite mercy and grace, to send unto us, at this time, with good speed, in the deliverance and bringing forth of a Princes[s], to the great joy, rejoice, and inward comfort of my Lord, us, and all his good and loving subjects of this his realm; for the which his inestimable benevolence, so showed unto us, we have no little cause to give high thanks, laud, and praising unto our said Maker, like as we do most lowly, humbly, and with all the inward desire of our heart. And in as much as we undoubtedly trust, that this our good speed is to your great pleasure, comfort, and consolation, we, therefore, by this our letters, advertise you thereof, desiring and heartily praying you to give, with us, unto Almighty God, high thanks, glory, laud, and praising; and to pray for the good health, prosperity, and continual preservation of the said Princes[s] accordingly. Given under our signet, at my Lord’s Manor of Greenwich, the 7 day of September, in the 25th year of my said Lord’s reign. -- source link