Mary II of England

According to a website named Scotland's Mary, he was crowned king at thirteen months. This was due to his mother being forced to abdicate and his father being murdered. (A Short History of James VI of Scotland). The young child was forced to grow up at an exceedingly rapid pace. His actions as the future leader would shape and inspire many civilians lives, for both the good and bad. King James I was, arguably, one the most intelligent kings to rule of England. The young king…

The secret 1464 marriage between Elizabeth and the then philandering bachelor, newly crowned King of England, was not a political alliance. Custom and tradition dictated that Edward’s bride would be of noble birth, preferably a princess or a high ranking noblewomen from another European kingdom which would bring foreign alliances to England. This potential match would also need to be a virgin. Historian J.L Laynesmith wrote, “He [Edward IV] had apparently rejected all the prospective…

Queen Elizabeth I of England made a speech to the troops and England’s people in 1588 before the war between Spain and England. Queen Elizabeth’s purpose was to assure her army and people that she is in charge and that yes, she is a women but with the heart of a king that can lead them to victory. The subject of the speech is the war between Spain and England. The tone in this speech is hopeful and empowering. In this speech Queen Elizabeth I uses many rhetorical strategies to persuade her…

Elizabeth was born on March 6, 1806 at Coxhoe Hall in Durham, England. She is the oldest of 12 siblings. Her father is Edward Moulton Barrett, and her mother is Mary Graham Clarke. Edward died in 1857 and Mary died in 1828 at the age of 22. In 1832, her father had sold his rural estate and moved the family to London. It took them 3 years to permanently be settled in. In the 1830’s she started gaining a lot of attention, she continued to live in her father’s house in London. Her father would…

Henry's move to reform the Church in England began with his desire to divorce Queen Catherine, who had not given him any surviving male children. Henry wanted to remarry Anne Boleyn, but he needed a dispensation from Pope Clement VII who did not want to grant the new dispensation. In 1509, King Henry VIII came to the throne following the death of his father, Henry VII, and married his brother’s widow, Catherine of Aragon. By 1524 Henry started having doubts about his marriage with Catherine. He…

VIII became the first English King in the Tudor family” (Benson and Stock). Although having no prior training of kingly duties and inheriting a distraught and unmotivated country, King Henry VIII’s rule of England has gone through countless reforms and through his popularity and inspiration, England changed distinctively from what it was in the past. In the beginning, Henry VIII was just meant to be the king’s second son. There was no inclination of him really be coming king. According to…

She impacted the future of England for centuries to come, because of her second marriage with King Edward IV from a royal family. Although controversial challenges such as witchcraft faced Woodville, she still made a lasting impact. Elizabeth Woodville and her family established a legacy that has had a tremendous effect in history to this date. Woodville was the first born of Sir Richard Woodville and Jacquetta of Luxembourg. She was born around 1437 at Grafton in England (“Woodville”38).…

Elizabeth I. The purpose of the speech was to inspire the troops who will battle against Spain. King Philip, who was married to Queen Mary, had proposed to Queen Elizabeth, who kindly declined, later on he was driven to have the English crown through Mary Queen of Scots who subsequently was executed by Queen Elizabeth. It was decided that Spain would somehow invade England 1587. Furthermore, Queen Elizabeth sought inspiration to motivate her troops by using repetition, where she was a tangible…

ruling families. Often arranged, these marriages were a form of diplomacy, which signified increased relations between the two nations. Elizabeth I witnessed such a marriage occur when her half sister Mary I married the Spanish Prince Philip of Spain. Despite her royal birth and bloodline to England, as soon as she married Prince Philip all decisions were made by him and in the interests of Spain (Thomas 98). Seeing the consequences of such…

gentry: Northumberland and Cumberland against William Cecil. In the same way, Pilgrimage of Grace had a subsidiary cause of faction. Henry’s divorce with Catherine of Aragon and disinheritance of Mary alarmed the Aragonist faction. This implied that they would lose power in court without Catherin or Mary on crown. Northumberland and Cumberland demanded the return of political power in the north and wealth as this would ensure a restoration of their influence in the government in the northern…