Posted on 04/11/2020 7:37:47 AM PDT by CheshireTheCat
On this date in 1554, rebel leader Thomas Wyatt the Younger tied on his own blindfold and laid his head on the block, having declared that not “any other now in your durance [i.e., the Tower] was privy to my rising” That remark exculpated the Princess Elizabeth, who just days before had been ominously rowed to the Tower on suspicion of having known of or involved herself in Wyatt‘s abortive revolt.
And Wyatt had had to do more than talk the talk to keep the future Queen Elizabeth I out of the executioner’s way.
Sore afraid that Wyatt’s rebellion had been engineered with the connivance of her Protestant half-sister, the Catholic Queen Mary Tudor had had Wyatt tortured to implicate her.
(Excerpt) Read more at executedtoday.com ...
1554. Seems like only yesterday.
Uplifting website, most likely, it’s a lot of fun to maintain and update it...
Had it continued, there is an excellent chance England would have been finished as an independent country, as it came perilously close to doing when the b*tch finally died.
So interesting how many points in history could have gone in another direction.
Your summary also shows how recent degradation and murder by the human race is not a recent development. Not to mention Cain and Abel. Oh those sibling rivalries.
It was a close call as ‘Bloody’ Queen Mary was near fanatical about restoring England to Roman Catholicism (RC) and wiping out the disgrace of her mother, Catherine’s forced divorce from Henry VIII. Elizabeth, her half-sister, was the sole daughter of Mary’s mother’s replacement, Anne Boleyn, and Elizabeth was quite a bit less inclined to RC although her life depended upon keeping the appearance of being RC.
If Elizabeth had indeed been executed herself, the next in line (1558) then would have been the other Queen Mary [Stuart (age 15)], acknowledged reigning Queen of Scotland, except that she was already married for 6 months to the crown prince of France. As another devout RC, she would have given Protestant-trending England a real lengthy bout of practicing RC monarchs. An interesting alt-hist speculation there!
Plenty of blood on Queen Elizabeth and the Protestant’s hands as well, and for centuries to come. All in all, a tragedy that England was lost to the Church.
bkmk
Very happy it was - history would have been very different otherwise.
Thanks CheshireTheCat.
The rc church was lost unto itself. As Christ said “my kingdom is not of this world”
Matter of fact, the whole thing was the result of the Tudors gaining the throne.
That monarchy never settled down. Typical of oligarchies.
... And now, the rest of the story https://www.newbelgium.com/blogs/new-belgium-brewing/2013/12/09/1554-has-a-history-that-you-might-not-believe/
..good observation....and she did not become “Queen Elizabeth I” until Feb., 1952, upon the ascention to the throne of the royal heir to the throne who became Queen Elizabeth II upon the death of her father, the reigning King ... just as today, there is no “Pope Francis I”... cannot be a “Ist” until and unless there is a “II” and subsequent...
It was in March. 466 years have passed since.
I watched an episode of a tv show called “Sliders” where they travel between parallel universes. They thought they were back to their own when they herd that clinton was president.
They were very disappointed when on the tv they saw President hillary cliton...!
Bloody Hillary!
“”Bloody Mary””
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The Hillary Clinton of her day?
The Lord God has been merciful to this country, in uncountable days and manners.
Always wanted.them.to.do.an episode where all.seemed normal except coffee was a banned substance.
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