I use the term “finally” because of how long this process was! Remember – it was back in August that Mary had been caught plotting…
All Tudor, all the time...
Tag: Mary Stuart
First, some background. Mary Stuart became Queen of Scotland when she was less than a week old. Henry VIII of England wanted her to marry…
A little over a month after imprisoning the Scottish Queen in Lochleven Castle, the Scottish Lords forced Mary Stuart to abdicate her throne in favor…
Henry Stewart, Lord Darnley, was the second husband of Mary of Scotland, and the father of her son, James VI of Scotland/James I of England.…
I’ve written other posts about the legal arguments that Mary would use in this trial, also about the letter she wrote to Anthony Babington that…
Margaret Douglas was the daughter that Margaret Tudor bore shortly after marrying her second husband, Archibald Douglas, the Sixth Earl of Angus. Margaret Douglas would…
Let’s back up a little for context: four months earlier, Mary’s husband (Henry, Lord Darnley) had been murdered at Kirk O’Field, and many people believed…
After Mary Stuart wrote her fateful letter (I did a separate post about it, you can read it here), Elizabeth had little choice but to…
Amyas Paulet is best known for having been Mary Stuart’s gaoler for the last two years of her life…but he was a lot more than…
Fifteen-year-old Francis II had become King of France two months earlier, upon the death of Henri II (killed in a jousting accident – read about…
