House of stuart

The life and death of Henry Stuart, the “lost prince” who would have been King Henry IX had he survived into adulthood, is the subject of an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery.

Elizabeth Stuart (1596–1662) was the charismatic daughter of King James VI of Scotland (later James I of England) and Anna of Denmark. She married the Calvinist Frederick V, Elector Palatine, at age 16, and lived happily in Heidelberg, Germany, for six years before being crowned Queen of Bohemia at 23 and moving to Prague.

Royal House of Stuart Family Tree from King James I (1603 - 1625) to Queen Anne (1702 - 1714).

When we think of kings and queens from throughout history, we usually only focus on the first name they went by — but have you ever thought about the royal last names? Obviously, like any other family tree, the names have twisted and turned over the years with marriages gaining new surnames along the way — or perhaps […]

The new film The Favourite, winning favorable reviews and earning award nominations, shows a Queen Anne who doesn't seem up to the job of ruling a

The Royal Mail releases today June 15, 2010, a new issue on British royalty featuring the House of Stuart. This is the fourth in the Kings and Queens series of stamp issues which profiles every monarch from 1399 to the present. The Stuarts ruled Scotland for over two centuries before inheriting the English throne and established a reputation as both ambitious and accident-prone. Of nine monarchs, six of them died violently. They ruled Britain from 1603, when the Union of the Crowns caused…

If you want to know more about The Stuart Family, then this wiki is for you. It’s perfect for learning about history in a fun and wonderful way.

An image illustrating the family tree of the Stuarts (sometimes spelled Stewart or Steuart) a ruling dynasty of Scotland from 1371 and of England from 1603, from a personal union of crowns in the United...

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