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E ElizabethvsMary

Dating Game

Who would make a suitable husband for the Queen of Scots?

Would you like to ally

with another country?
Do you want to arrange

Do you want and equal your own marriage?

partnership?

Would you prefer a

faithful husband?

Does he have to be

Do you want him to be attractive?

king in his own right?

Would you like a family

together?
Do you want a

husband with a claim

Does he have to be to your throne?

Catholic?

James Hepburn, 4th
Henry Stuart,
Edward, Prince
King Francis ll Lord Darnley Earl of Bothwell

of Wales Bothwell was one of Scotland’s
of France When Mary first laid eyes on her most powerful nobles, with the

Francis was Mary’s first husband and Before Francis a proposed, marriage cousin, Lord Darnley, she exclaimed means to protect Mary in the face of
between Mary and Edward was
that he was “the lustiest and best
growing unrest. The nature of their
they cared deeply for one another, suggested by the latter’s father, King proportioned long man” that she had relationship, whether it was a matter
having spent a happy childhood HenryVIII.ToforceMary’smother ever seen. As a great-grandson of of love or Bothwell forcing Mary to
together. Francis was just 15 years to accept, Henry launched a series King Henry VII, Darnley had his own marry him, is still debated. Regardless,
old when he ascended the throne of attacks on Scotland, an event that claim to the English throne, making his itledtoanuprising against the queen
of France and he also used the became known as the Rough Wooing. marriage to Mary a threat to Elizabeth. and Bothwell fled to Denmark, where
arms of England as Mary’s husband, In the end, the only purpose it served Unfortunately, Darnley was power
presenting themselves as the rightful was as the catalyst for sending Mary hungryandhisattempttostealMary’s he spent a decade imprisoned before
rulers of England. However, their to France in 1548 – Edward died just throne led to his own downfall. his death in 1578.
ambitions were cut short with his five years later.
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