ELIZABETH I IS BORN
The disappointing birth of a princess later leads to Henry VIII’s greatest legacy
The long-awaited day had arrived - Henry VIII was proudly expecting the birth of his first son with his second wife, Anne Boleyn. His failure to produce a surviving son with his first spouse, Catherine of Aragon, had been a point of much contention - spurring him to break with the Catholic Church in Rome in order to remarry.