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Elizabeth I: How successfully did she tackle the problems of her reign: Mary Queen of Scots

Elizabeth I: How successfully did she tackle the problems of her reign: Mary Queen of Scots. Elizabeth I. Mary Queen of Scots. Mr C. A. McGuinness www.SchoolHistory.co.uk. Mary Queen of Scots. Elizabeth and Mary were cousins.

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Elizabeth I: How successfully did she tackle the problems of her reign: Mary Queen of Scots

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  1. Elizabeth I: How successfully did she tackle the problems of her reign:Mary Queen of Scots

  2. Elizabeth I Mary Queen of Scots Mr C. A. McGuinnesswww.SchoolHistory.co.uk

  3. Mary Queen of Scots • Elizabeth and Mary were cousins. • If Elizabeth had no children - Mary had a good claim to the Throne of England. • Mary was Elizabeth’s heir. • Mary was a Catholic. Problem? Yes England could become CATHOLIC again.

  4. Marriage 1 • Mary’s first husband was Francis II. • When he died she returned to Scotland. • Better to be Queen of Scotland than an ex-Queen of France. • But Scotland is now mainly Protestant.

  5. Marriage 2 Darnley become Mary’s second Husband. They marry in secret. Scottish Lords do not like it - he and Mary are Catholics.

  6. Darnley. Mary’s second Husband Tall and handsome but.. Drank a lot, weak, Big Headed, Bad-temper He was Catholic. He wanted to be kingof Scotland. Rizzio. Mary’s secretary. Italian. Amusing. Charming. Mary’s Lover. Lord Darnley v David Rizzio He had to go!!

  7. Murder 1- Rizzio • Darnley and friends grab Rizzio and drag him outside. • He clings to Mary, 6 months pregnant. • Rizzio is stabbed 56 times. • He is dead!!! Mary ‘no more tears now, I will think of revenge’

  8. Baby James June 1566 James is Born.

  9. Murder 2-Darnley - Kirk O’Field • February 9th 1567. • Mary leaves to go to a party. • 2.00am House Blown up • Darnley is strangled. • Bothwell’s servant is at the scene.

  10. Marriage 3 • Husband number 3 Lord Bothwell. • Married just 3 months after Kirk O’field. • Bothwell is Protestant and has divorced his wife. • REBELLION - MARY FLEES TO ENGLAND.

  11. Prisoner When Mary arrives in England she is put under ‘house arrest’ – she is kept prisoner in a house in the north of England. So even when Mary is in prison she plots against Elizabeth! What should Elizabeth do with Mary Queen of Scots?

  12. Elizabeth I: How successfully did she tackle the problems of her reign: Mary Queen of Scots What should Elizabeth do with Mary Queen of Scots?

  13. Prisoner • Why not send Mary back to Scotland? • Because Mary may be put to Death. • Set her free in England? • No - she claimed the English Throne! - Catholics were plotting to replace Elizabeth with Mary. • So Mary would be held prisoner for 19 years.

  14. Spy in the Camp Agents 1570 Pope Made it possible for Mary to write to her friends. Told Catholics it was OK to get rid of Elizabeth. Walsingham Elizabeth’s Chief Minister Babington Plot Letters Babington and 6 others planned a foreign invasion. Mary agreed to it. Written in code but Walsingham knew what she was writing.

  15. Delay Babington was executed in September 1586,5 months before Mary - why? • Elizabeth could not bring herself to kill her cousin who she had never met. • Elizabeth did not want to kill one of God representatives on Earth. • Mary was a foreign monarch Elizabeth had no right.

  16. But eventually Elizabeth gave in to the demands of her Protestant advisers – after 19 years under house arrest, Mary was executed in 1587.

  17. Execution February 1587 Fotheringay Castle Wearing Red as a sign of dying for her faith.

  18. Elizabeth I: How successfully did she tackle the problems of her reign:Mary Queen of Scots

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