unmarried (未婚的).Queen Mary and a young man named Lord Darnley were the next heirs (继承人).And Mary made Darnley her husband.They had a son,who,after the death of his father and mother,was k___ to be the heir to the English throne (宝座),when Elizabeth's life should end. 相...
Building upon the earlier tradition of the inquest, Henry issued several assizes, or ordinances, that introduced the procedures that eventually developed into theGrand Jury. He also developed a number of writs to bring cases from the feudal courts of the barons into the royal courts. In addition...
The film depicts Soviet politics and the interplay between Stalin and his lieutenants, particularly Beria, during the last years of Stalin's rule. The reading of Yevgeny Yevtushenko's "The Heirs of Stalin" in the final scene supposedly warns that the threat of totalitarianism is constantly ...
England Have a Close Shave ... Germany Are Heirs to Throne[broken bar] ASIL FAWLTY'S order not to mention the war -- and by implication the Germans -- is not so easy after their magisterial demolition of the world's fourth-ranked nation Holland.Lawton, James...
HenryVIIIhadmarriedCatherineofAragon,daughterofFerdinandandIsabellaofSpain,andtheauntofEmperorCharlesV.By1527,theunionhadproducednomaleheirtothethroneandonlyonesurvivingchild,adaughter,Mary.Henrywasjustifiablyconcernedaboutthepoliticalconsequencesofleavingonlyafemaleheir.Inthisperiod,peoplebelieveditunnaturalforwomento...
The stories of these women - told here in all their vivid humanity - illustrate the paradox which the female heirs to the Tudor throne had no choice but to negotiate. Man was the head of woman; and the king was the head of all. How, then, could a woman be king, how could royal ...
When Queen Anne died without any heirs, the English throne was offered to her nearest Protestant relative, George of Hanover, who thus became George I of England. Throughout the long reign of George, his son, and grandson, all named George, the very nature of English society and the politi...
Henry’s subsequent marriages—to Anne of Cleves, Catherine Howard, and finally Catherine Parr—were marked by political alliances, accusations of infidelity, and his search for companionship and further male heirs. Catherine Howard’s execution for adultery and Catherine Parr’s survival as the widow...
Mary, the daughter of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon was born at Greenwich Palace on 18th February 1516. The couple had married soon after Henry succeeded to the throne in 1509. After losing her first daughter in childbirth Catherine's first son died when he was only a few weeks old....
of legislation, being the first (and by no means the last) of Henry's attempts to sequence his heirs by statute, and its principal jobs were thus to legitimize Henry's recent marriage to Anne Boleyn and to place their offspring foremost in the line of succession to the English throne. ...