Quotes About Royalty

Mary Tudor died on November 17, 1558

She was born at Linlithgow Palace, some seventeen miles west of Edinburgh, on Friday, December 8, 1542.

he started to stammer nervously. "Madam," he began, "the queen's

Her son, Prince James

Gossip said he was a royal bastard.

although his mother was briefly one of James IV's mistresses.

the only women important enough to have them in Henry II's reign were Catherine de Medici and Diane de Poitiers.

horse-drawn litter covered with velvet and fringed with gold and silk, as well as a coach

In Paris, Elizabeth's accession was greeted with unconcealed scorn.

Mary wanted to appeal directly to Elizabeth at the level of queen to queen.

Mary found this insulting. It implied that she was Elizabeth's inferior.

Sumptuousness of this kind was unknown in Scotland. James V's belongings had been more modest.

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

Elizabeth's right to succeed her elder sister on the grounds of bastardy and Protestantism

the queen my good sister coming of the brother, and I of the sister.

Sex was obligatory for a queen consort of France.

of the kingdauphin and queen-

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

THE DAY BEFORE Darnley's assassination was one of the happiest Mary could remember.

the most breathtaking and dramatic events of Mary's life were about to unfold.

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

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

Within the space of six months, she had been widowed and orphaned and had lost her standing as queen of France.