Elizabeth was born in Greenwich Palace on September 7th 1533. From her father, Henry VIII, she inherited great physical strength, a fiery temper, coarseness and cruelty, and to Anne Boleyn her mother, may be attribute the undoubted feminine charms she displayed when it suited her capricious temperament to do so. The people weary of the barbarities of Mary's reign, looked with hope towards their new sovereign.