Mary Queen of Scots

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Although his flirtation with power was relatively brief, Lord Darnley still managed to find himself at the heart of two of history's bloodiest scandals.

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Queen Mary cruelly burned over 280 heretics in her short reign—but she wasn’t the only fierce woman in Tudor England.

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From in-law massacres to ponytail strangulations, witness the limits of motherly love with 25 soothing facts about history’s most ruthless matriarchs.

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Elizabeth I may have had many ladies-in-waiting in her royal court, but she only trusted Bess of Hardwick to do her dirty work.

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Mary, Queen Of Scots Facts. After enduring betrayal, imprisonment, and a botched execution, Mary, Queen of Scots, is truly one of history's tragic figures.

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Margaret Tudor is overshadowed by her infamous brother Henry VIII, but there was often little difference between her life and an episode of Game of Thrones.



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