Especially after she'd been dead so long!
Henry was petrified of death and couldn't bear to be around it, oddly enough.
So when Jane fell ill and it became apparent she would not recover, he left.
I kid you not!
Katherine Parr berated her husband for his actions with Elizabeth shortly before she died, soaking with fever.
Elizabeth was very very sorry for her actions, being only a young teen, and apologised personally to the ill Katherine, who was the closest thing she had to a mother.
But Katherine did not hold her to blame, she being so young, and even Katherine sometimes joined in his tickling games with the girl, not realising his motives were of a different nature to hers.
She, quite rightly, blamed her husband, about whom Elizabeth said, shortly after his execution, that he was a man of 'much wit and little judgement.'
Elizabeth's reputation was much besmirched by her rather naive participation in a dalliance with Thomas, but after this she was very careful to guard her reputation.
Despite countless films about her having had sex with Dudley, there's definitely no evidence of this and all evidence points to their relationship as being, although close and very flirtatious, platonic.
Elizabeth's position was very precarious throughout her life and she never even named a successor.
Once she was so ill she was beyond the power of speech, she made a sign of a crown with her hands above her head to her nobles on her deathbed, and when asked if she meant James, she simply shook her head to indicate yes.
James, hearing of her final illness, had been taken to putting on robes of state every evening after dinner and sitting on his throne, waiting.
Three days after she died, a rider, still muddy from his journey, swept into the throne room, the ring in his hands all that was needed to gain entry, and dropped to one knee in front of James, presenting the ring in his palm.