Edward de Vere

Queen Elizabeth I Imagine if as a child, your birth was the most disappointing thing of your father’s life, your mother got executed and you had to live with your stepmother and her husband. This all happened to Queen Elizabeth I in her life and a lot more. She grew up in a very difficult family and she ended up living with her stepmother after her father and mother died. Her father wanted a son instead of a daughter so she was a huge dissapointment. Queen Elizabeth I shows her importance in her…

Before Henry VII of England came into power, England was coming out of a fragmented feudal society and was in need of a strong ruler and government system. Rule was shifting from an oligarchy of nobles to a monarchy hungry for power and successors. The church was steadily losing its power as everything became increasingly more secular. As the church lost power rulers such as Henry were gaining. There was a need to sustain and increase this power. Niccoló Machiavelli wrote The Prince in 1513…

queen of England, governing with relative stability and prosperity for 44 years. She was queen for so long they named the time “ Elizabeth Era”. She died in 1603. In Elizabeth's early life the throne seemed very slight once her half-brother Edward was born in 1537. Roman Catholics, indeed, always considered her illegitimate and she only narrowly escaped execution in the wake of a failed rebellion against Queen Mary in 1554.…

short play, “Good Night, and Good Luck.” based off the CBS news show See It Now in 1954 that was later made into a movie directed by George Clooney and Grant Heslov, Senator Joseph R. McCarthy makes a rebuttal to the statements said by newscaster Edward R. Murrow about McCarthy. Murrow stated that his methods towards Communists were unfair and unethical. Murrow did not agree with McCarthy, he believed in the something completely different. Murrow shared this belief, going against McCarthy, on…

What was the most significant threat to Henry VII's reign? Some people argue that the De la Poles were the most significant threat to the throne and whilst they surely had the most potential I disagree with that claim. The brothers had three times the chance to make a claim to the throne, as all of them had an equal claim to it through their maternal heritage. Albeit they did not use it to their advantage or were unable to use it. John wasted his claim by supporting another, which would have…

the Duchess of Burgundy who had previously also supported Simnel and were eager to see Henry replaced on the throne. When the Irish believed Perkin to the the Earl of Warwick Perkin denied it, claimed though to be Richard, Duke of York and son of Edward IV. This would have given him…

Keen author of The Hundred Years of War began in 1328 CE due to the death of the French king Charles IV, who had no male heir. However, he had a sister, Isabella, whose son was Edward the third and was the King of England. Despite this, the throne was passed down to the King’s nephew in France, Philip Valois. King Edward the third sent a note to Philip renouncing his title to the French monarch creating a dispute over the throne; this was one of the main causes for the start of the Hundred…

In the article, A Star is Made, Anders Ericsson, a 58-years old psychotherapy professor at Florida State University, tried to answer the question “When someone is very good at a given thing, what is it that actually makes him good?”. To answer this question, he conducted an experiment, about memory training. This experiment involved a person hearing a series of number and then repeating it. After a few trials, he concludes that memory itself is not genetically determined, but instead though a…

who God has anointed King and their successors. However, Richard is so corrupt and driven by his malicious ambition that he has interefered in what God chose. As King Edward was old, he would have died naturally in the near future and Clarence would be the one to take the throne until the young Princes were old enough to succeed Edward which Elizabethans would have believed that this is the way that God wanted it to be. However, Richard interefered in this and this is shown when Richard III has…

Élisabeth-Louise Vigée-LeBrun, a Rococo era painter turned Neoclassical, was born in Paris on April 16, 1755. She lived to be eighty—seven as “one of the foremost portraitists in Europe at the end of the eighteenth century and during the first three decades of the nineteenth.” (NGA, web) (May, 1) Spanning a long career with over 600 paintings, Vigée-LeBrun is “characterized” and marveled “…as the much sought-after portraitist of not only European royalty and nobility, but also of notable…