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- [S35] Tudors: The History of England from Henry VIII to Elizabeth I, Peter Ackroyd, (New York: St. Martin's Press, 2012), 338-339.
- [S45] The Life of Elizabeth I, Alison Weir, (New York: Ballantine Books, 2008), 185.
- [S35] Tudors: The History of England from Henry VIII to Elizabeth I, Peter Ackroyd, (New York: St. Martin's Press, 2012), 329-330.
"By May they had made a secret engagement and, in July, they were married without waiting for the papal dispensation from Rome allowing first cousins to unite. She then proclaimed him king of Scotland without asking the advice of her parliament. She had married in haste, but she would soon repent it. Darnley was as vain as he was unbalanced; he was arrogant and dissolute; he was weak-willed; within a short time he had managed to offend most of the Scottish nobility."
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