Elizabeth R

Mary's rival

Elizabeth was on good terms with her stable-keeper Dudley.

He became her confidant and lover.

She called him: 'my eyes'.

A marriage could safe her succesion.

Dudley's wife was incurably ill. Near Elizabeth he would become king.

Poor Amy. Jalous, sick and unhappy.

She fell from the stairs. Who pushed her?

Elizabeth refused to marry him.

Dudley had not counted on that.

Elizabeth's political advisors dissuaded her to marry the stable-keeper.

The Treaty of Leith.....

.....which Mary refused to sign.

Elizabeth in turn refused Mary admittance to her land.

After her recovery of smallpox she offered Mary her own lover. He could be a good spy!

Elizabeth imprisoned Mary in England..

For twenty years she offered peaceful solutions but Mary rejected them all.

Three times Mary tried to attack Elizabeth's life.

There was no choice left. She endured unbearable stress.....

.....and finally commanded Mary's execution.

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