James was the only son of Maria I Stuart, Queen of Scotland, and her second husband, harebrained, pretentious and cowardly Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, Duke of Albany. Descended directly from King Henry VII of England through his great-grandmother Margaret Tudor, daughter of the king and sister of Henry VIII. The domination of Maria Stuart was unsure about Scotland, both for her and for her husband, and be Catholics met with a rebellion of Protestant noblemen. Their marriage was particularly troubled, largely due to pathological jealousy Darnley. While Mary was pregnant, the future James VI, Lord Darnley secretly allied himself with the rebels and made in a savage murder, and in the presence Queen and his wife, the secretary and the favorite, the fragrant Italian David Rizzi .
James was born on June 19 1566 in Edinburgh Castle, automatically transformed into Duke of Rothesay and Prince and High Seneschal of Scotland as heir to the Crown. It was named after Charles James, in honor of his patron, King Charles IX of France, so that, subsequently, would be the first British monarch to have more than one name. Elizabeth I of England, as a godmother in absentia, sending a wonderful source of gold as a gift of baptism .
Lord Darnley, and then her lover were murdered on February 10 of 1567 at his home in Kirk O'Field, the Hamilton's home in Edinburgh. It seems that revenge was the Queen for having killed her beautiful and whimsical favorite. forbes The marriage of Maria on May 15 of that year with James Hepburn, Earl of Bothwell, who was the most obvious suspect in the murder of the Duke of Albany, raised suspicion and unpopularity. In June 1567, the rebels Maria protesters arrested and imprisoned in Loch Leven Castle, never came to see her son. Was forced to abdicate on July 24 in favor of the infant James, and appoint his illegitimate half-brother, James Stuart, Earl of Moray, as regent.
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Colle-sur-Mer, France - A former U.S. soldier, making what he says is his last mission, received the thanks of the French people and his own people the president Saturday for a share of the generation that saved the world from tyranny 65 years ago. - Independent
On D-Day, the 65th anniversary of which fell yesterday, I always think of my deceased father, a Leading Aircraftsman Taylor JRG, landed in Normandy in June 1944 and spent the following year after the Allied advance east of Berlin. - Eyewitness News 3 Hartford
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