Queen Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots

[Duchess of Verona]

Of course one's options for entertainment or mental stimulation were very limited in those days. I am sure they would have enjoyed cable tv just as much as sermons, if not more!

[Kristallinchen]

Of course one's options for entertainment or mental stimulation were very limited in those days. I am sure they would have enjoyed cable tv just as much as sermons, if not more!

They probably would've listened to sermons on cable tv.

[BassChick]

Of course one's options for entertainment or mental stimulation were very limited in those days. I am sure they would have enjoyed cable tv just as much as sermons, if not more!

They probably would've listened to sermons on cable tv.

[CyrilSebastian]

On May 22, 1554 Princess Elizabeth (Queen Elizabeth I) was removed from the Tower of London. She remained under house arrest for almost a year.

[CyrilSebastian]

On February 24, 1566 the marriage of James Hepburn, Earl of Bothwell and Lady Jean Gordon was celebrated. Mary, Queen of Scots supplied the eleven ells of cloth of silver for Lady Jean's wedding.

[CyrilSebastian]

The Earl of Morton, head of the Douglas clan, supported Mary, Queen of Scots, because Henry Lennox, Earl of Lennox's wife Margaret had been a Douglas, and Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley was thus mother's kin to the Douglases.

[CyrilSebastian]

Queen Elizabeth I received the French ambassadors after the Massacre of St. Bartholomew.   
http://www.alamy.com/quee...known-image259688876.html

[CyrilSebastian]

Mary of Scotland mourning over the dying Douglas at the Battle of Langside in 1568   
http://www.alamy.com/stoc...e-battle-of-25244237.html

[CyrilSebastian]

During the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, Sir Francis Drake became the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe.

[CyrilSebastian]

Mary, Queen of Scots: 6 Facts:   
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Iaao3rWYmQ

[CyrilSebastian]

The escape of Mary, Queen of Scots from Loch Leven Castle   
http://www.alamy.com/stoc...even-castle-90844038.html

[CyrilSebastian]

Queen Elizabeth I kept a personal advisor named John Dee - a renowned mathematician, astronomer, and astrologer - in her regular company.

[CyrilSebastian]

Mary, Queen of Scots with her attendants circa 1570   
http://www.gettyimages.com/license/78980457

[CyrilSebastian]

Queen Mary of Scotland - Biography     
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgZan7L871U

[CyrilSebastian]

Sometime before her marriage to Francis, Dauphin of France, Mary, Queen of Scots changed the spelling of Stewart to Stuart to make it easier for the French to pronounce.