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Showing posts with label Mary Stuart. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mary Stuart. Show all posts
Friday, November 22, 2019

Marie de Guise, Queen and Regent of Scotland

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Marie de Guise, queen and regent of Scotland (born 22 November 1515) As I have noted many times in the years since I began writing this...
Thursday, April 14, 2016

Women and Political Power--Or, Some Things Never Change

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Hillary Clinton, Matilda of England, and the Crap Women Have to Put Up With When it comes to women seeking political power, things don...
Sunday, October 18, 2015

Mary Sidney Wroth: Pamphilia, Poetry, and Prose

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Mary Sidney, lady Wroth (born 18 October 1587) The namesake of another Mary Sidney (about whom I'll be posting later this month), ...
Thursday, October 1, 2015

Mary Tudor, Queen of England

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Mary Tudor (crowned 1 October 1553) Mary Tudor was crowned queen of England on 1 October 1553. Queen Mary of England, 1554, portr...
Friday, September 25, 2015

Arbella Stuart--She Might Have Been Queen?

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Lady Arbella Stuart (died 25 September 1615) The unfortunate Arbella Stuart was born to great potential, but her life ended in great tr...
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Tuesday, September 15, 2015

Sophia Dorothea of Celle, A Forced Marriage, Then an Imprisonment

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Sophia Dorothea of Celle, princess of Hanover (born 15 September 1666)  Sophia Dorothea of Celle's life is a tragic one--and her st...
Wednesday, February 11, 2015

Elizabeth of York: She Might Have Been Queen

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Elizabeth of York (born 11 February 1466 and died 11 February 1503) The daughter of Edward IV, the Yorkist king of England, and the nie...
Sunday, February 8, 2015

Mary Stuart: Queen of Scotland, Would-Be Queen of England, Catholic Martyr

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Mary Stuart, queen of Scots (executed 8 February 1587) Mary Stuart, c. 1578 On this day in 1587, Mary Stuart was executed by Eliza...