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16 articles matching “Mary, Queen of Scots”
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Queen Elizabeth was displeased he had not yet found some way to "shorten the life" of his prisoner. His loyalty was unquestionable, as was his honour. His response was blunt and immediate.
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They had never met. He sent her a diamond. She sent him an embroidered pillow. On the first of July 1569 Norfolk wrote that he had gone too far to stop.
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They promised her honour, then locked the Queen of Scotland on an island. She had not abdicated. The boat returned to the mainland without her.
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She was thirteen when they gave her to her fiancé's father.
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Margaret Tudor reached her brother's border heavily pregnant and was told to wait. The queen of Scotland could not step into England until Henry VIII said she could.
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Elizabeth was handing Robert Dudley to another queen. Halfway through the ceremony, she couldn't keep her hands off him.
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Her son's clothes no longer fitted him. His grandmother wrote to tell her. She had gone to Scotland to marry a king. Her little boy had stayed in France.
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She may have just miscarried twins. She was twenty-four years old, and she was still lying in pain in her bed when the lords came for her crown.
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On 18 July 1552, a boy was born in Vienna who would spend his whole life refusing to marry anyone. A girl in Spain was promised to him before she could walk. She spent the next five decades building a life out of everything he never gave her.
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Catherine de' Medici watched her husband ride into a tournament wearing another woman's colours. He was carried out with a lance through his eye and called for his mistress from the bed where he was dying. Catherine refused to let Diane de Poitiers in. The queen had finally found a door she could close.
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Henry VIII had given her a "Rough Wooing" since she was barely old enough to walk. His son continued it. On the seventh of July 1548, Scotland promised its five year old queen to France. She was some seventy miles away and did not know it was happening.
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She was born with nothing. She buried four husbands, built four great houses, and died the second wealthiest person in England after the queen herself.