Quotes About History

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

after Henry VIII's break with Rome and burning more than three hundred Protestants at the stake

the cardinal ordered the heraldic arms of England to be blazoned with those of France and Scotland

Sex was obligatory for a queen consort of France.

of the kingdauphin and queen-

A set-piece battle would almost inevitably end in a crushing defeat for the Scots.

It was to taint the relationship of Mary and Elizabeth for the rest of their lives.

One set depicted the History of Aeneas, another the Judgment of Paris

Only three months and five days had passed since Darnley was murdered.

Francis was succeeded by his brother, Charles IX, who was only ten years old.

While Bothwell and his servants were moving into Darnley's old apartments at Holyrood

On August 22, Moray was proclaimed regent.

The wars within the British Isles resumed under Henry VIII, who acceded to the English throne in 1509.

He had led the lords who deposed Mary's mother eight years before

He had witnessed her forced abdication and was determined to help her

The idea that Mary should marry Charles IX was rejected out of hand by Catherine.

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

Moray was in Glasgow when he heard the news of her escape.

The Guise family's ascendancy was over.

Within three months, the first of the Wars of Religion would have begun in France

Elizabeth was still acutely sympathetic to Mary;

Mary might return home as an independent queen.

in 1513, at least the Scots had been scythed down in hand-to-hand combat during a set-piece battle.

one of the two most dramatic assassinations in Scottish and British history.