Dinner Party Fail
On 9 March 1566, Mary, Queen of Scots, though it’d be nice to have a little dinner party with David Rizzio, a singer and musician whom she’d made secretary for...
Margaret the Uniter
Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to witness the joining of two countries. As Princess Margaret Tudor marries King James IV, England and Scotland are united and shall remain...
Friends?
This day in history: The Treaty of Edinburgh was signed
Marie de Guise
November 22 will forever be remembered as the day a president was shot and killed, but I really prefer to remember births instead of deaths, and on this day in...
Elizabeth I
Happy birthday, Queen Elizabeth! On September 7, 1533, the new queen, Anne Boleyn, gave birth to a baby girl who would unexpectedly grow up to be one of England’s most...
The Beginning of the End
May 15 was the beginning of the end for a pair of 16th century queens. First, in 1536, Anne Boleyn was brought to trial on (almost certainly) bogus charges of...
Mary, Queen of Scots
The much-romanticized Mary Stuart returns to Scotland to reign, and promptly gets played by Elizabeth, her own brother, and just about everyone else around her.