Read part three here. The trouble with Mary, Queen of Scots, was not over yet. The Babington Plot of 1586 saw Elizabeth’s spymaster Sir Francis Walsingham beginning to assemble a case against her. Following a letter in which Mary incriminated herself in the plot, she was put on trial. However, putting a sister sovereign to [read more]
Isabella of France: The Rebel Queen Paperback – 15 January 2020 (UK) & 1 April 2020 (US) Isabella of France married Edward II in January 1308, and afterwards became one of the most notorious women in English history. In 1325, she was sent to her homeland to negotiate a peace settlement between her husband and her [read more]
Starz is going to explore the future Queen Elizabeth I’s younger years with a new show called “Becoming Elizabeth.” “The world of “Becoming Elizabeth” is visceral and dangerous – judgments are rendered quickly and no one is safe,” said Starz CEO Jeffrey A. Hirsch in a statement. “This series explores the Tudor reign and young Elizabeth, [read more]
Four Queens and a Countess: Mary Queen of Scots, Elizabeth I, Mary I, Lady Jane Grey and Bess of Hardwick: The Struggle for the Crown Paperback – 15 September 2019 (UK) & 1 January 2020 (US) When Mary Stuart was forced off the Scottish throne she fled to England, a move that made her cousin Queen [read more]
An embroidered altar cloth, which may have been part of a dress worn by Queen Elizabeth I, will go on display for the first time at Hampton Court Place. The so-called “Bacton Altar Cloth” was discovered in Herefordshire and the curators at Historic Royal Palaces believe that it once formed part of a dress worn [read more]
When Mary Stuart was forced off the Scottish throne she fled to England, a move that made her cousin Queen Elizabeth very uneasy. Elizabeth had continued the religious changes made by her father and England was a Protestant country, yet ardent Catholics plotted to depose Elizabeth and put Mary Stuart on the English throne. So [read more]
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