On the 15th of January 1559 – Elizabeth Tudor was Crowned queen of England Following the death of her half-sister, Queen Mary I of England, on the 17th November 1558, Elizabeth Tudor, the 25-year-old daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, (Henry’s second wife, who was executed two-and-a-half years after Elizabeth's birth), was crowned Queen Elizabeth I at Westminster Abbey in London.