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The Execution of the Queen of the Scots On the 8th of February 1587, after being held captive for eighteen years, the queen of England, Elizabeth I ordered the execution of Mary, Queen of the Scots, her cousin. Mary, Queen of the Scots was beheaded for treason against the queen. William Cecil, Lord Burghley, was Queen Elizabeth’s loyal chief advisors who ordered his nephew Robert Wingfield to record the execution of Queen Mary. Sympathy was evoke in the record for Queen Mary to show hope in a…

Cutler says that Shakespeare could not have known so many languages because he hardly ever left England and he did not have much education. There is also many other possible candidates, the most popular being Christopher Marlowe, Francis Bacon and Edward de Vere. In conclusion, Cutler believes that Shakespeare did not have enough education and experience to have been writing the way he…

The Tudor Dynasty reigned over England after the War of the Roses, a bloody succession crisis ending with Henry VII, the first Tudor, becoming King of England. The Tudors reigned from 1485 to 1603, and despite their long reign the time in English History was rife with dramatic change and disorder that shaped the British Isles for centuries to come, with no small part owed to the Tudors. However, the Tudors reign or socio-economic causes for change and subsequent disorder must be evaluated. For…

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…

Lambert Simnel not only had the claim to the throne by claiming to be the grandson of Edward IV but also substantial support. Simnel had several factors working in his favour, he was claiming to be a Yorkist in a country where many people were looking for a Yorkist king. Henry had just recently taken over the country, a Lancastrian who no…

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…

by eminent surgeon and Ripper suspect Sir William Gull, at 78 Brook Street, by Melvyn Fairclough in the 1991 book – The Ripper And The Royals. Alberrici is included, not because he was suspected of being Jack the Ripper himself, but because he was said to be part of the Masonic conspiracy theory, and was alleged to have aided Gull in his search for the prostitutes who knew of the alleged secret marriage between Prince Albert Victor and commoner Annie Crook. According to Fairclough, Alberrici,…