Click2Biography - Mary Queen of Scots - Chapter 4

<body link="0000ff" alink="ff0000" vlink="000000" bgcolor=000033> <table width="100%" bgcolor=000033> <tr> <td align=center valign=top> <table width=90% bgcolor=ffffff> <tr> <td align=center valign=top> <tr> <td> <div align=center><p><b><font face="arial, helvetica" size=5 color=000000><b>MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS</p> <p><font size="4">CHAPTER 4 - DISSENSION IN THE REALM</b></font></p> </div>  <center> <table width="90%"> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top"> <div align="justify"> <p><font face="arial, helvetica" color="000000" size="3"><a ; href="http://www.norfacad.pvt.k12.va.us/project/elizabet/eliza6.jpg" target="_blank"><b>Elizabeth</b></a> used this incident to further her own purposes: to discredit Mary who, with Darnley's death, was now heir to the English throne. Even after the inquiry had concluded without specific findings of fact and no determination of Mary's guilt, Elizabeth was not convinced her cousin was uninvolved in Darnley's death. </p> <p align="justify">To make matters worse for herself, Mary refused to listen to her advisors who urged her not to marry Bothwell. Instead of tending to affairs of state and raising her son - the future James VI of Scotland - Mary put her <a href="http://home.earthlink.net/~zzz12/hepburn.htm" target="_blank"><b>heart</b></a> first. She married <a href="http://home.earthlink.net/~zzz12/images/bothwell.jpg" target="_blank"><b>Bothwell</b></a>. She planned to make him king. It was a <a href="http://www.aboutscotland.co.uk/mqshint.html" target="_blank"><b>disastrous</b></a> move.</p> <p align="justify">Mary's advisors and subjects were outraged. They did not want the murderer Bothwell to sit on the throne of Scotland. On July 24, 1567 Mary was forced to abdicate the crown in favor of her son. Like his <a href="http://www.marie-stuart.co.uk/images/Blair_portrait.jpg" target="_blank"><b>mother</b></a> before him, James became the sovereign of Scotland as a very young child. And, as a further price to avoid war with the Scottish nobility, Mary and Bothwell were forced to separate. They never saw each other again.</p> </div> <p align="center"><font size="2"><a href="maryq_ch3.htm">GO TO LAST CHAPTER</a>     <a href="maryq_ch1.htm">BACK TO FIRST CHAPTER  </a>   <a href="maryq_ch5.htm">GO TO NEXT CHAPTER</a></p><br> </td> </tr> </table>  </td> </tr> </table>  </td> </tr> </table> </body>