Eager to be first in line, the astute James VI of Scotland responded to the question of the English succession with a war of ...

Darnley was murdered in February 1567. In July Mary was forced to abdicate in favour of her infant son. James's tutor, the historian and poet George Buchanan, was a positive influence and James ...

The succession passed smoothly and James VI of Scotland became James I of England ... In 1620 the Rhineland territories of his son-in-law, Frederick, Elector of Palatine, had been invaded by ...

the only son of Mary, Queen of Scots and her second husband Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley. He was crowned James VI of Scotland in 1567 when he was just over one year old. James succeeded to the English ...