Henry Stuart
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King James VI of Scotland, James I of England podcast….
“favourites”, Abdication, Agnes Sampson, Anna Whitelock, Anne of Denmark, Arbella Stuart, assassination, Basilikon Doron, BBC, Bible translators, Bye plot, Calvinism, Charles I, Counterblast against tobacco, David Rizzio, Edinburgh Castle, Elizabeth I, Elizabeth Stuart, Esme Stuart, executions, Fotheringhay, Frederick of Bohemia, George Villiers Duke of Buckingham, Greg Jenner, Gunpowder Plot, Henrietta Maria, Henry Lord Darnley, Henry Stuart, James Earl of Morton, James VI/I, Jamestown, King James Bible, Larry Dean, Mary Stuart, New World discoveries, North Berwick trials, Oath of Allegiance, podcasts, Popish Recusants Act, Radio 4, Regency, Roanoke, Robert Carr Earl of Somerset, Robert Catesby, Robert Cecil, Ruthven Raid, Scotland, Sir Walter Raleigh, Spain, Stirling Castle, Stuarts, The wisest fool in Christendom, Thirty Years’ War, tobacco, Union Jack, Union of the Crowns, voyage to Denmark, Wicked Bible, witchcraft, You’re dead to meHere is a link to a BBC podcast about King James VI of Scotland, who, of course, became James I of England and was the first of our Stuart monarchs. I can’t say I’m a Stuart expert, being much more interested in the Plantagenets, but a monarch is a monarch!
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I have just watched a documentary (called The Best King We Never Had and presented by Paul Murton) about Prince Henry, the firstborn son of King James VI of Scotland, James I of England. James, the son of Mary, Queen of Scots, was already King of Scotland, when he succeeded Elizabeth I, and became…
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More Tyrrells, this time in Oxfordshire. One family or two?
“Princes”, Capel St. Mary, David Starkey, Edmund Earl of Suffolk, Elizabeth of York, executions, genealogy, Gipping Chapel, Gipping Hall, Great Wenham, Guisnes, Henry Stuart, Henry VII, James VI/I, John Locke, London Guildhall, Master of Horse, Master of the Buckhounds, Richard III, Robert Catesby, Shotover House, Shotover Park, Sir James Tyrrell, Stowmarket, television, Tower of London, Tyrrell “confession”, Tyrrell family, William CatesbyThis (below) is Shotover Park in Oxfordshire, formerly part of the Wychwood royal hunting forest. It became the property of one Timothy Tyrrell in 1613, the year after the death of Henry Stuart, Prince of Wales, whom Tyrrell had served as Master of the Royal Buckhounds. Tyrrell was further honoured with a knighthood in 1624…
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