Mary Queen of Scots

[Sakhu]

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then type in King James V1

[GraceDawn]

I think it is very likely she plotted in Darnleys death.


Mary was not easily manipulated.She was in fact very clever woman but not quite as clever as her cousin Elizabeth.

One of her worst mistakes was to refer to herself as "Queen of England"...as well as Queen of Scots.


This referred to her not accepting the religious validity of Henry 8th's divorce and his subsequent marriage to Anne Boleyn resulting in Elizabteh's birth.

Mary, like mnay others considered Elizabeth a ******* because of this back ground.

mary needed watching!

I'm sure she had as one of her aims the return of the old religion to Scotland.
The Reformation was very new and still fragile at this time.

[GraceDawn]

Majorie Stewart, granddaughter of King Henry V111.


Sorry..you've lost me here!

I'm almost sure he had no grandaughter of this name.

[Polwarth]

Hello GraceDawn
I'm afraid Sakhu is known here as someone with only a tenuous grasp of Scots history....

[ConorC]

On her marriage to the Dauphin of France, King Henry V of France and his council insisted on Mary declaring herself not only Queen of Scotland but of England as well. This declaration haunted Mary's relations with Elizabeth even though Mary was only a child of 15 or 16 at the time.

It must be said however that Elizabeths ill will towards her cousin did not truly ripen until her marriage to Darnley (Darnley having a claim to the English throne as well).