Bess of Hardwick’s granddaughter, Lady Arbella Stuart, was destined never to wear the crown many believed was rightfully hers, as Terry Kilburn explains.
ARBELLA STUART was the daughter of Charles Stuart, Earl of Lennox, and Elizabeth Cavendish. The date of her birth is uncertain, possibly in the autumn of 1575. Her father was the younger brother of Henry Darnley, second husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, and father of James VI and I. Her mother was the daughter of Elizabeth, Countess of Shrewsbury, better known as ‘Bess of Hardwick’…