Lost letters of Elizabeth I

Historian John Guy, a leading expert on Tudor History on Elizabeth 1 and Mary, Queen of Scots. Images below from the British Library exhibition Elizabeth and Mary: Royal Cousins, Rival Queens

Elizabeth I attributed to George Gower, c.1567, on loan to the exhibition from a Private Collection

Mary, Queen of Scots, Francois Clouet c.1560-61. Credit Royal Collection Trust © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2021

Warrant confining Mary 16 June 1567 (c) National Library of Scotland Edinburgh Morton Cartulary and Papers MS 76 4

Ink and pencil drawing of the execution of Mary Queen of Scots (c) British Library Add MS 48027 f650r

Elizabeth and Mary - Royal Cousins Rival Queens (c) British Library - Photography by Justine Trickett

Pen and ink drawings of Elizabeth’s coronation procession on 14 January 1559 (c) British Library Egerton MS 3320 ff. 4v–5r

Poem by Mary Queen of Scots February 1587 (c) The Bodleian Libraries University of Oxford MS Add C 92 f24r

Elizabeth’s translation of Katherine Parr’s Prayers and Meditations 1545 (c) British Library Royal MS 7 D x ff. 5v–6r

John Guy

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