Elizabeth I heir to the trone

[tucho58]

who were the heirs to Elizabeth I trone during the first 20 years of her reign...before she appointed James I? How close was Lord Darleigh to it?

[Peter Pedant]

Goodquestion i woud like to see a historians answer.

bascially no one was sure. Henry Viii her father had an act of parliament passed whcih allowed him to nominate a successor (!)

and she refused to name one - a successor

or to marry

This was quite a problem from early on in her feign from 1558, a because her brother and sister had only lasted five years

and she looked as thought she was goinng the same way after she nearly fied from small pox in 1562