Why was Queen Elisabeth so jealous of Queen Mary?

Firstly I would say that I agree with the first part of Chloe Boll0w's answer, and it is really very good. read more

Elizabeth by then was not jealous of Mary but she saw her as a security threat. The problem for Cecil was that Catherine de Medici in France had no interest in promoting a member of the overly powerful and ultra-Catholic Guise family to absolute power in England, and the Spanish were preoccupied by their war with the Dutch rebels in the Low Countries. read more

Elizabeth I (1533-1603) became Queen of England in 1558 after her sister Mary died. She was the daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn and had had a troubled childhood. Her mother had been executed when she was three years old and her father had married four more times. read more

Mary Queen of Scots had the most fabulously small waist darling, Elisabeth was so jealous of her slimline figure that she had her done away with. Real and true. read more