Quotes About John Guy

It is not what happened before the murder that precipitated her downfall, but the astonishing events that followed it.

Mary kept her wits and turned to Darnley. "What do you know about this?" she demanded.

all I can tell you is that I account myself one of the happiest women in the world.

reiterated Edward I's claim to the feudal overlordship of Scotland.

was the future king of Scotland and France, and by virtue

urging him to assist the lords in their campaign to expel the French permanently from Scotland.

said that Mary "had done an extraordinary and unexampled thing on the night of the murder

dearest sister," subject to a judicial examination of Henry VIII's will.

six hundred nobles were captured, including the constable and four of his sons, who were imprisoned.

he was very lusty, beardless and lady-faced.

The terms were a complete vindication of England and the rebel lords, and a betrayal of Mary and her mother.

One of the accounts of her execution dismissed her as "transcending the skills of the most accomplished actress.

His grandfather had risen on the battlefield, was promoted to an earldom and given Bothwell Castle in Lanarkshire.

he exchanged it for the Hermitage, a vast and isolated border citadel in the valley of the Hermitage

and one of the executioners took the medallion from around her neck

As Mary's veil and black outer garments were removed, stifled cries of shock and astonishment reverberated around the hall.

No sooner had Moray received a transcript of this confession than poor Paris was silenced forever.

that if one of the executioners had not moved them, they would have been cut off.

One of Drury's finest contributions was to send a colored drawing of the assassination to Cecil.

her forced abdication and execution, the business on that day was regicide.

and arranged for her to have her own household, they had run a calculated risk.

Elizabeth's practice to draw hatch marks in pen across the blank spaces of her sensitive and important letters

Mary was not blamed by Elizabeth for causing this, the most serious rebellion of her reign—at least not yet.

Bothwell, an expert seaman, escaped with three of his ships.