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To: Campion
Mary Queen of Scots was a Stuart, not a Tudor. Elizabeth had her executed because her claim to the throne was arguably stronger than Elizabeth’s own.

Yes.

There is irony in Elizabeth's eventual successor. I'm not sure this is true, but I've heard that when Elizabeth was old and dying, she lost the power of speech. Childless, she had no obvious heir. Ministers gathered around her deathbed as she lay dying and tried to determine the successor. Various names were mentioned. Each had pros and cons. Finally, they mentioned James Stuart, ruling Scotland as James VI. When they mentioned him, Elizabeth managed to raise her hands to her head, fingers splayed upward, making a crown. And that's how James VI of Scotland became James I of England, and how the Stuarts made it to the throne.

But the story is probably not true, I think, because Elizabeth likely could have just written a note.

25 posted on 03/23/2018 10:01:36 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Racism against Whites is a real thing. Let's stop pretending it isn't.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Read E ate so much sugar, later in life her teeth had all rotted out. Who knows?

http://www.tudorsdynasty.com/queen-elizabeths-rotten-teeth/

We now know Richard III hasn’t a hunchback.


29 posted on 03/23/2018 10:11:05 AM PDT by lizma2
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To: ClearCase_guy
That sounds like a plausible anecdote. Ironically, a few years earlier the Earl of Essex had organized a rebellion against Elizabeth to put James on the throne, but since that was before Franklin Planners, he managed to arf it up, lose, and get executed.

51 posted on 03/23/2018 11:53:00 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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