succession crisis
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Elizabeth I’s half-brother? Henry Carey, 1st Baron Hunsdon
It has long been known that Henry Carey, 1st Lord Hunsdon, was Elizabeth I’s closest living male relative. However, it…
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The other Elizabethan succession crisis: the fight to succeed the 1st Lord Burghley, 1592-1598
The long-running problem of who would inherit the English throne was not the only succession crisis of Elizabeth I’s reign.…
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The death of Prince Henry and the Succession Crisis of 1612-1614
Four hundred years ago last November a succession crisis hit England and Scotland, when the heir to the throne, Prince…