Anne Boleyn gave birth to Princess Elizabeth at Greenwich Palace, her only surviving child and the future Queen Elizabeth I.
On 7 September 1533, Anne Boleyn gave birth to a daughter, Princess Elizabeth, at Greenwich Palace. The birth was a profound disappointment to Henry VIII and the court, who had confidently expected a son to secure the Tudor succession after Henry's tumultuous break with Rome and Catherine of Aragon specifically to marry Anne.
Despite the initial disappointment, the birth of Elizabeth proved to be one of the most historically consequential events of the Tudor period. Elizabeth would go on to become Queen Elizabeth I, ruling England from 1558 to 1603 in what is remembered as a golden age of English culture, naval power, and national identity — the Elizabethan era.
Anne's role as Elizabeth's mother is central to her historical legacy; although Anne would be executed before Elizabeth turned three, her daughter's eventual reign vindicated, in the eyes of many historians, the immense political and religious upheaval caused by Anne's marriage to Henry. Elizabeth's later religious settlement, establishing Protestantism firmly in England, can be seen as a continuation of currents Anne herself supported during her lifetime as an advocate of religious reform.