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lady Arbella Stewart was born it is

believed in chatsworth house in the

county of Derbyshire England lady our

Bella Stewart's father was the first

Earl of Lennox Charles Stewart and her

mother was Elizabeth Cavendish a lady of

the bedchamber to Queen Elizabeth the

first she was also one of the wealthiest

women in England at the time our Bella

would be an only child

her parents were died very young her

father died as twenty-one years of age

will now Bella was less than a year old

and her mother died at only 26 years of

age when our Bella was only seven years

old our Bella would then become the ward

of her grandmother which was quite

unusual as orphans of privilege would

usually become Ward's of master of the

court of wards at the time Lord Burleigh

her grandmother Elizabeth Talbot

Countess of Shrewsbury otherwise known

as better Hardwick took her to her home

in Derbyshire Hardwick Hall where they

lived in protective seclusion Lady

Arbella Stewart was educated to a very

fine standard a very bright child became

a very intelligent woman she continued

her education into her adulthood

learning French Spanish and Italian she

also learned to play various instruments

including the lute vile and virginals an

instrument that was part of the

harpsichord family our Bella was taught

to read and her writing was to an

exceedingly high standard she would

eventually settle on William Seymour as

her husband and they were married in

secret lady our Bella Stewart's duty was

to marry very well as she was fourth in

line to the throne after Queen Elizabeth

the first it was imperative she make an

excellent marriage but any proposal

would have to be agreed by her majesty

before any marriage could take place to

make it legal it would appear the first

suggestion would come from the House of

Savoy

the next from the Duke of Parma a

Portugal for his eldest son originally

proposed by the Pope himself which would

have perfectly suited the Roman Catholic

Church the Pope finally decided to

defrock his own brother to enable him to

marry but nothing came of any of these

suggestions

it would appear there is no direct

evidence to prove whether our Bella was

in

a Catholic or Protestant for marrying

without the King's permission King James

had both Arbella and William Seymore

imprisoned William was imprisoned in the

Tower of London and Arbella was held in

the home of Sir Thomas Perry in Lambeth

Arbella wrote attentively to William and

to the king when the King heard of her

letters to Seymour however he made

arrangements for our Bella to be

transferred from Lambeth to the custody

of William James the Bishop of Durham in

order to delay her departure our Bella

claimed to be unwell in order to escape

the escape itself was a success for both

our Bella dressed as a man and William

unfortunately our Bella left port before

Williams arrival William boarded the

next available vessel for France but the

King having received word of the escape

sent men to recapture our Bella and

return her to England this stated

overtaking are Bella's vessel just

before they reached Kali lady ah Bella

was returned to England and imprisoned

in the Tower of London lady Arbella

spent the remainder of her life

imprisoned in the tower she would never

again set eyes on her beloved husband

William Seymour the second Duke of

Somerset with the bleakness of her life

in captivity before her Arbella began to

refuse her food she would succumb to

starvation on September the 27th

16:15 when she died in the tower her

body was laid to rest in Westminster

Abbey in London

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