Quotes About Loyalty

and Mary was to lure Darnley to his fate at Kirk o'Field.

The executioners helped Mary's gentlewomen to undress her down to her petticoat.

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

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

When Elizabeth heard of Mary's forced abdication, she sent at once for Cecil.

A seismic shift was about to occur, one that discounted her kinship bonds to Elizabeth

In particular, he urged his sister to crush the Protestants, whom he regarded as political insurgents.

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

She had done everything possible to prevent Mary's execution until she felt it could no longer be avoided

Within a week, six thousand men rallied to her cause.

Already several of the lords were defecting from Moray and joining her camp.

Mary had done her duty in marrying Francis and had showered him with signs of affection. But she had never loved him.

She had great success in raising a royal army.

Within a fortnight of her arrival, Mary knew that her whole future lay in Cecil's hands.

They died honorably rather than like rats in a trap.

The Catholic lords intended to join with the Protestants to resist the forfeiture of the rebels

She most of all needed Elizabeth's friendship to arm herself against the volatility of her lords

it was impossible to believe they would stay on the same side for long.

Mary was betrayed by her own family, who failed to give her the benefit of the doubt.

Even the Catholics deserted Mary in her hour of need.

By acquiescing in the treaty of Edinburgh, her uncles had betrayed her.

Does anyone really know their friends? Close friends even? Can you really say, hand on heart, that you know what your pal's thinking, even if you've known them intimately all their life?

You said you couldn't believe in anyone who didn't believe in you. I believed in you. You just didn't believe in me.

I know but one word ...Obedience! I know how a soldier will obey an order...even to death. I cannot expect to look JESUS CHRIST in the face and obey HIM less than a soldier his commander.