Queen Elizabeth and Mary Queen of Scot's

• Elizabeth heard that she was to become queen on November 17, 1558.
• Elizabeth was molested by her guardian's husband, Thomas Seymour when she was only 14.  
• After her guardian's death, Seymour wanted to marry her and it was rumored that she was pregnant with his child.  
• When her Catholic half-sister, Mary, took the throne Elizabeth did not want her to be queen. 
• Elizabeth plotted to get Mary out of power, but the plan backfired and Elizabeth was sent to the tower. 
• She talked her way out of being held captive, but she was kept under close watch. 
• When Mary died childless, Elizabeth took the throne. 
• People said that she seemed full of "manly authority."
• Elizabeth did everything that woman weren't supposed to do.  She looked men in the eye and spoke out of turn. 
• Elizabeth had a tutor who taught her the art of rhetoric and public speech. 
• William Sessel constantly had to remind her that the people needed her to have a husband. 
• In the 16th century it was thought that prolonged virginity would bring about "green sickness"
• Robert Dudley was believed to be Elizabeth's true love.  
• Dudley was extremely good looking, which was important to Elizabeth, and they were very similar.
• Dudley's wife was found at the bottom of a staircase with a broken neck.  It was an accident that seemed to be too coincidental to be an accident. 
• People believed that Dudley had pushed his wife down the stairs. 
• Elizabeth sent him away to avoid the questions from people, but it changed something in their relationship. 
• Elizabeth used Dudley in politics, but she never married him. 
• Elizabeth decided to have Dudley marry her cousin, Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots. 
• Mary Stewart is called Mary I just like Elizabeth's dead half-sister.  
• Mary Queen of Scots was beautiful, while her cousin was not.  
• To Elizabeth Mary was a menace. 
• Mary was a Catholic and as a Catholic she did not recognize Elizabeth as being Queen of England. 
• Elizabeth was rude and mean to Mary.  
• Things could've been better for them if Mary could have accepted Robert Dudley as a husband, but Mary did not want to be told what to do. 
• Mary married Henry Stuart instead
• This was a mistake because he was a drunk and could not help Mary with even the smallest tasks. 
• In 1566 a group of 
• They stabbed 
• Then they turned the pistol on Mary who was pregnant with child. 
• Mary was strangely calm.  
• She knew that she had her strongest weapon inside her womb.
• On June 19, 1566, Mary had a son named James. 
• On March 9, 1567 the house where Darnly was asleep was blown up.  Darnly tried to escape, but he ran right to the plotters and was murdered. 
• He knew she needed a husband and he offered himself up. 
• Bothwell abducted Mary and took her to his castle. 
• Mary married Bothwell.  
• Mary let herself be turned into a "whore."
• On the verge of battle Mary was left by herself because her husband went off to "collect reinforcement."
• She was accused of being a "mermaid," another word for prostitute. 
• Married was forced to renounce her throne and give it up to her baby son.  
• She was 25 years old. 
• Mary crossed over to England, expecting to only stay a year at the most. 
• She ended up staying for 19 years. 
• Elizabeth was angry that Mary was now on English soil. 
• The first thing that Elizabeth did was to order an inquiry into the murder of Mary's husband. 
• This turned into a trial. 
• Mary was treated as a prisoner.  Elizabeth had to keep Mary far away from the coast, Scotland, and London so that she could not be rescued. 
• A certain group of political nobles that were close to Elizabeth's government wanted to have Mary as their king. 
• Elizabeth planned to have Mary's marriage to Bothwell annulled and to have her be married her to Thomas Norfolk.  
• Norfolk had a plot against Elizabeth though and as soon as she heard of this she had him sent to the Tower. 
• The religious war was still going on. Catholics in the north were rebelling. 
• 12,000 troops were mustered to crush the rebellion of the Catholics.  
• Mary was accused of plotting against Elizabeth and ultimately executed.