Quotes About Power

Elizabeth and her chief adviser were repeatedly at loggerheads.

Although the queens of France were also anointed and crowned

Darnley was assassinated.

Cecil believed that Parliament had the right to settle the succession to the throne on religious grounds

because the regent's power was limited by the terms of the treaty of Haddington.

By October 12, she had decided to destroy him.

The lords realized that her position as the future queen of France

meaning that Mary's dynastic claim had at all costs to be discounted.

Change was afoot at court even before the ceremony. A palace revolution began the day after Henry II's death.

the Duke of Guise usurped his seat at dinner.

She ruled from the heart and not the head. She was a femme fatale, a manipulative siren

But Catherine was not to be underestimated. Already she perceived Mary to be a threat

so refused to accept the usual title of Dowager Queen.

Henry II sent for the Duke of Guise, then in Italy, and appointed him lieutenant-general of the kingdom.

Mary of Guise, herself barely a year older than Lennox and still one of the most beautiful women in Scotland

Henry II wanted to launch a counterattack, especially against England.

Diane de Poitiers, the constable's ally, was scarcely treated better.

The magnificent jewels Henry II had showered on her were reassigned to Mary

it began to sink in that whoever married her was likely to become king and could make or break their careers.

Amid this dynastic turmoil, sudden shock waves reverberated around Europe

Mary deplored the lost opportunity. Two women rulers, working together for the benefit of the British Isles

when the celebrations were ended, Darnley would be made king of Scotland

Philip II had come to resent the fact that his wife was eleven years older than he was.

It was the classic dilemma for women rulers. Should they marry and have children