Notes 9/29/10

• Elizabeth was getting visits to her bed by her guardians husband when she was only 14
• When her guardian died, the husband wanted to marry Elizabeth, and it was rumored that she was pregnant with his child
• Elizabeth was sent to the Tower when a Protestant plot to kill Mary failed
• She spoke out of turn and acted with "manly intelligence"
• She had charisma, but her surrogate father and closest advisor knew that she needed an heir
• Prolonged virginity was thought to cause illness
• Elizabeth and a man named Dudley were possibly lovers
• Dudley was married, but his wife was ailing
• Dudley's wife was found at the bottom of a staircase dead of a broken neck
• Dudley was suspected of pushing her, and they didn't get married
• Elizabeth offered Dudley to marry Mary Stewart, Queen of the Scots (Elizabeth's cousin)
• Mary didn't think that Elizabeth should have been queen, in her eyes Elizabeth was illegitimate
• Mary was next in line for the crown
• Mary didn't want to marry Dudley
• She instead married a total loser; a drunk incapable of doing anything
• A group of men went in and killed Mary's husband in front of her
• Her unborn child was threatened when men pointed a gun at her pregnant belly, and she milked it for all it was worth
• Bothwell (one of Mary's advisors) had Darnley killed
• Bothwell offered himself as a husband by taking her to his castle and raping her
• She married him, and went insane
• Mary had to face enemy armies, and Bothwell disappeared.
• She came back with her breasts exposed, and was seen as a prostitute
• Mary was sent to prison, but escaped after 10 months
• She needed to see Elizabeth
• Elizabeth refused to treat Mary as royalty
• Elizabeth didn't want to return a Catholic queen to Scottish throne
• Elizabeth ordered an inquiry of the murder of Mary's husband
• Mary was kept away from anyone that might try to rescue her
• There was a Catholic uprising, but they were beaten