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Chapter 4: Mary Queen of Scots, the English succession and other problems, 1563-7. Chapter 5: the queen and her realm mid-reign. Chapter 6: Old problems and new in the queen's middle years. Chapter 7: Killing a queen and facing invasion 1585-9. Chapter 8: An ageing queen and the ...
In Sweden, for example, under Article 4 of the Act of Succession 1810, ‘The King shall always profess the pure evangelical faith, as adopted and explained in the unaltered Confession of Augsburg and in the Resolution of the Uppsala Meeting of the year 1593’. Likewise in Denmark, Article ...
AfterQuantum Of Solace,Sam Mendes’ 007 debut feels like a re-reboot for theDaniel Craigera. Out went the mystifying Quantum and its devious plan to do something or other in Bolivia; in came the arch and motivated Silva (Javier Bardem) to add a much-needed dose of theatricality and threa...
For half a century the whole island went through the Reformation under Henry VIII and the Counter Reformation led by his daughter and heir, Mary I. The bloody religious persecution came to a stop after the church settlement executed by Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603). She was inclined to suppo...
That fear kept the solid mass of vested interests on the side of the Protestant succession, and tended to keep it on the side of the Whigs, because the Whigs were more decisively bound to the Protestant succession than were the Tories, although the bulk of the Tories were by no means ...
[55] Great Britain, Portugal, the Netherlands, and the Holy Roman Empire continued the War of the Spanish Succession, which lasted until 1714 and was concluded by the Treaty of Utrecht. Philip V of Spain renounced his and his descendants' claim to the French throne, and Spain lost its ...
and the Continent was re-established. This renewed contact is reflected in a British silver sceat whose design was inspired by a local Merovingian silver issue of Marseille. The Merovingians, however, were beset by succession problems and many of the later kings were little more than figureheads...
The Danish Succession Crisis/The Slesvig-Holstein Question is an amazingly fun mix of dynastic rights, personal squabbles, confusing legal issues that are hundreds of years old in some cases, nationalism and great power politics. If one dives just a little bit into the details they often e...
This apparently worked so well that we see a stable currency during the great War of the Spanish Succession (1701–1714). In the aftermath of that War, as we have seen, the Guinea was pegged at 21 shillings, and this actually remained the benchmark of the value of gold for two ...