Elizabeth I Elizabeth I was the Tudor Queen of England during the 16th century ( TV : " The Shakespeare Code " ) and a spouse of the Tenth Doctor . ( TV : " The End of Time " , " The Day of the Doctor " ) Biography . Elizabeth was the daughter of King Henry VIII of England and his second wife , Anne Boleyn . ( AUDIO : " Recorded Time " ) Her immediate predecessor was her elder half - sister Mary I . Elizabeth had multiple sobriquets , including " the Virgin Queen " and " Good Queen Bess " . In 1555 , a Protestant priest , the Reverend Thomas Smith , attempted to install Elizabeth on the throne in place of her Catholic half - sister Mary . ( AUDIO : " The Marian Conspiracy " ) At the time of the Reformation King Henry VIII declared himself as the head of the English church . His daughter Elizabeth I later persecuted priests and followers of the Catholic Church . However the Catholics built secret rooms and passages in their houses so that the priests could hold their services in secret and escape . That was why the St Agnes Abbey also had some secret passages . ( PROSE : " Eye of the Gorgon " ) By 1562 , Elizabeth had become Queen . Sometime that year , the Tenth Doctor had a picnic with her in a glade , believing her to be a Zygon in disguise . He proposed to her to see her reaction , in order to prove she wasn ' t the real queen — which she accepted . In reality , it was actually the Doctor ' s horse that his shapeshifter DNA - detecting device had been picking up on , meaning that he had proposed to the real Queen Elizabeth . The actual Zygon then took on Elizabeth ' s form , but the Doctor ' s attempt to identify the real one was interrupted by the arrival of the Eleventh Doctor . Once separated from the Doctor , Elizabeth got into a fight with the Zygon Elizabeth , defeating it . The rest of the Zygons then accepted her as their leader , believing her to be their commander . Elizabeth proceeded to incarcerate the Doctors , now joined by the War Doctor , in the Tower of London . Elizabeth left the door to the cell unlocked , fascinated to see what would happen if the Doctors escaped . Elizabeth introduced the Doctors and the Eleventh Doctor ' s companion , Clara Oswald , to the rest of the Zygons and revealed the details of their plan to enter stasis inside a series of Time Lord paintings until Earth was ready for conquest . With the Zygons neutralised of their own accord , Elizabeth agreed to bring the Doctor ' s TARDIS to them , but first insisted the Tenth Doctor fulfil his promise to marry her . After the Doctors and Clara departed , she had the paintings locked up in a secret part of the National Gallery , the Under - Gallery . She then left instructions ( which eventually wound up in the hands of UNIT ) that the Doctor be appointed Curator of the Under - Gallery and that he be contacted in the event of an emergency . ( TV : " The Day of the Doctor " ) Elizabeth I ' s court astrologer John Dee was apparently another identity of Jared Khan , who was still fruitlessly hunting the Doctor at the time . At this point , the Queen appeared to be on friendly terms with the Doctor , then in his seventh incarnation . ( PROSE : " Birthright " ) After arriving in Sissenden Village in 1588 , the Fourth Doctor suggested to Leela that they visit Elizabeth I . In that year , Lady Jane Mountville was one of the ladies of her bedchamber . ( AUDIO : " The Devil ' s Armada " ) Elizabeth I imprisoned Sir Walter Raleigh in the Tower of London . Either the First or Second Doctor was his cell - mate whom he bored with incessant discussion of discovering the potato in the New World . ( TV : " The Mind of Evil " ) The First Doctor was first shown encountering Elizabeth I as an image on the Time - Space Visualiser . He , Barbara Wright , Vicki Pallister and Ian witnessed her , circa 1596 , attempting to influence William Shakespeare to write another play featuring the character of Falstaff — this one featuring Falstaff " in love " . ( TV : " The Chase " ) The Sixth Doctor and Evelyn eventually visited the court of Elizabeth I at some point , which was their intended destination at the time of Evelyn ' s first trip in the TARDIS . ( AUDIO : " Thicker Than Water " ) The Eighth Doctor would later return to Elizabeth ' s court in the company of Samson and Gemma Griffin . ( AUDIO : " Terror Firma " ) Years after the Tenth Doctor had fled his marriage commitments in his TARDIS , Elizabeth I ' s opinions of him capsized . Knowing he had no wish to stay with her , Elizabeth developed scornful feelings at her abandonment , and her violent attitudes seeped into her contempt toward the Doctor . In 1599 , following a performance of " Love ' s Labour ' s Won " at the Globe Theatre , Elizabeth immediately recognised the Tenth Doctor as her " sworn enemy " and ordered her guards to kill him with a cry of , " Off with his head ! " However , it was a younger version of the Tenth Doctor who had not yet carried out the act which angered the queen . ( TV : " The Shakespeare Code " , " Gridlock " ) Legacy . Elizabeth X later made a passing remark regarding a relationship between the Doctor and the " Virgin Queen " , also implying that the Doctor and Elizabeth I in some measure consummated their marriage . ( TV : " The Beast Below " ) The Dream Lord later noted his relationship with Liz the First . . . " Well , she " thought " she was the first " . ( TV : " Amy ' s Choice " ) After he accidentally agreed to marry Elizabeth , the Tenth Doctor said to himself , " The Virgin Queen ? So much for history . " ( TV : " The Day of the Doctor " ) The Tenth Doctor said to Ood Sigma , " Got married , that was a mistake , to good queen Bess , let me tell you her nickname is no longer . . . " before coughing and saying , " Never mind that . " ( TV : " The End of Time " ) When discussing things he still had time for with Dorium Maldovar , the Eleventh Doctor mentioned that " Liz the First " was still waiting to elope with him in a glade . ( TV : " The Wedding of River Song " ) Ian Chesterton had seen films depicting the Spanish Armada in which Elizabeth I was played by Bette Davis and Flora Robson . ( AUDIO : " The Flames of Cadiz " ) While waiting for River Song to use her vortex manipulator to get back to him in Victorian London , the Eleventh Doctor saw a statue of his eleventh incarnation wearing an Elizabethan outfit that mirrored the outfit his tenth incarnation was depicted wearing in a painting with Elizabeth I . The Eleventh Doctor stated , " Bess , you silly old goat , let it go ! " When River appeared she asked if the statue was of him the Doctor replied , " She made me wear that ! I thought it was just a private portrait for her handbag . " ( GAME : " The Eternity Clock " , TV : " The Day of the Doctor " ) River Song mentioned her among the other spouses of the Doctor . ( TV : " The Husbands of River Song " )