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| | From:  terrilee62 (Original Message) | Sent: 2/9/2008 4:19 PM |
Even tho I really should be working, can't help but post on this list since I noticed these February dates - February 9, 1567 - Death of Lord Darnley. February 8, 1587 - Execution of Mary Queen of Scots. I knew that she was a prisoner in England for nearly 20 years but had not realized that their death dates were within a day of being exactly 20 years apart.  How odd is that? Checking Wiki, Darnley's full titles were: His Grace the King {actually King Consort, a courtesy title from Mary}, His Grace The Duke of Albany, The Rt. Hon. The Earl of Ross, yet to history, he is always known simply as Darnley. An interesting paragraph from the wiki article: His marriage to Mary, Queen of Scots, was a disaster. Darnley was younger than Mary and not particularly mature for a 19-year-old. He possessed a fondness for cross-dressing. He was unpopular with the other nobles and had a mean and violent streak. |
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Don't forget Catherine Howard & Jane Rochford on your February fatalities list....February 13th....& Lady Jane Grey....also February 9th |
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O & that miserable Guildford Dudley LOL....I always forget him. Methinks he was axed a day or 2 before Jane, I forget atm  |
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Back up the truck....are they confusing Darnley with the French guy? Crossdressing?  |
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I never heard of Darnley crossdressing, he has been described as "pretty" with rather feminine features and I do believe he was bi-sexual. He was very immature to be a husband to a queen and he was violent and unpredictable. Tudorgalusa |
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Mark's correct; it was the 11th that Jane sent a request to Mary to visit Guildford, (but was denied) so that may be where the day before confusion arises. Mary signed her death warrant on the 7th & Jane was told to prepare herself on the 8th. It's said Mary gave her a few extra days because she was hoping Jane would recant her Protestant beliefs by sending over her own chaplain to urge Jane to convert to Catholicism; Jane told him she "had no time" for such nonsense & the priest interpreted this litearally, encouraging Mary to think that with some instruction Jane would repent of her heretic ways. Jane apparently so impressed him with her firm faith that he requested that she permit him to accompany her to the scaffold, which she granted. Mary was sensitivity to the end, making Jane pass by Guildford's headless corpse being trundled off. Five more minutes was going to hurt? |
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