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5 days ago · Every peer of the realm was personally summoned to sit in the House of Lords, which was dominated by the greatest of the king’s officers. The lower house was composed of representatives selected from the counties and boroughs of the nation.
5 days ago · Henry Benedict Stuart died at the Episcopal Palace at Frascati on July 13, 1807, at the age of 82. With Henry’s death, the male line of the Royal House of Stuart was extinct.
3 days ago · This event appears all the more impressive when contrasted with the rueful spectacle presented by Temple Bar just eighty years later, when the heads of the most devoted followers of the house of Stuart were exposed over its gates, as if in bitter derision of the monarchs of the exiled Stuart line whose effigies adorn its niches.
4 days ago · The House of Tudor (/ ˈ tj uː d ər / TEW-dər) was an English and Welsh dynasty that held the throne of England from 1485 to 1603. They descended from the Tudors of Penmynydd , a Welsh noble family, and Catherine of Valois .
2 days ago · Another important consequence of William's reign in England involved the ending of a bitter conflict between Crown and Parliament that had lasted since the accession of the first English monarch of the House of Stuart, James I, in 1603.
5 days ago · Mary Queen of Scots — or, more properly, Mary I of Scotland — was Scottish queen from Dec. 14, 1542, until her forced abdication on July 24, 1567. She belonged to the Scottish Royal House of Stuart. She was also Catholic. Barely six days old when she ascended the throne, her childhood was spent in her mother’s homeland, France.
3 days ago · United Kingdom - Anne, Union, Sovereignty: Queen Anne, daughter of James II and the last of the Stuarts, inherited a country that was bitterly divided politically. Her weak eyesight and indifferent health forced her to rely more upon her ministers than had any of her Stuart predecessors, but she was no less effective for that.
