Elizabeth I ordered the beheading of Mary, Queen of Scots, a Catholic claimant to the ... the new English queen had a tenuous claim to the crown. Her mother’s fall from favor and subsequent ...

The 'Treasures, Royal Gems & Jewellery,' colloquium held in Lisbon explored the history, preservation and public role of royal gems and jewels ...

Last Updated on February 18, 2025 Mary’s stage rule is as short as her real one The rarely performed Mary, Queen of Scots ...

The key chapter of his reign involved two women - his mother, Mary Queen of Scots, and Elizabeth I of ... to find ways of raising money for the crown. The outbreak of war on the continent, however ...

where Mary, Queen of Scots, gave birth to James VI in the 1500s. In the Crown Room, you will find the Honours of Scotland, which are Scotland’s Crown jewels and the oldest crown jewels in the ...

To cancel out the power of the Catholic church in England, he dissolves over 800 monasteries and transfers their wealth and lands transferred to the crown ... cousin Mary, Queen of Scots is ...

She hoped Queen Elizabeth would offer an army to regain Mary’s Scottish crown. Elizabeth, by now fearful of Mary as a Catholic Queen with supporters in Europe eager to see her on the English throne, ...

For 400 years Bacon’s appeal fell on deaf ears, but in Crown of Thistles, Linda Porter has finally responded, crafting the national histories into a genuinely ‘British’ interpretation of the long ...

Also in 1818, the Crown Jewels of Scotland were rediscovered ... at the south east corner of what is today Old College; Mary, Queen of Scots’ husband, Lord Darnley, was found strangled in ...

And so to the final new production of English National Opera’s season; Mary, Queen of Scots, directed by Stewart Laing and ...

Thea Musgrave’s rarely performed Mary, Queen of Scots makes its London and English National Opera (ENO) premiere in February ...

Then in 1977 came her full-scale opera Mary, Queen of Scots, given by Scottish Opera, which they brought to London for a couple of performances at Sadler’s Wells in 1980. English National Opera ...