Historians believe that an early dalliance with Thomas Seymour may have soured Elizabeth's attitudes toward sex.
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She considered several suitors over the course of her childbearing life, but never actually married.
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I think that she associated marriage to death because of what happened to her mother, Anne Boleyn, and to her stepmother, Katherine Howard. It is possible that something happened between Elizabeth and Seymour, even if I think she was a virgin when she died.