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ARABELLA STUART

Lady Arabella Stuart was an English princess. She was born in 1575 and died in 1615. She was the daughter of Charles Stuart, earl of Lennox, who was himself the grandson of Margaret, sister of Henry VIII. When Elizabeth I died, Arabella Stuart was next in line to the throne after James. Kept a prisoner at Hardwick, she was made the figurehead of a conspiracy in 1603. In 1610 she secretly married William Seymour, afterwards the duke of Somerset, and together with her husband was arrested by James I. Both she and her husband escaped, but Arabella Stuart was recaptured near Calais and in 1611 was imprisoned in the Tower of London where she died insane in 1615.
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