LADY ARABELLA STUART
BORN: 1575
DIED: 1615
Lady Arabella Stuart
Scottish National Portrait Gallery
As a descendant of Henry VIII's older sister Margaret, Queen of Scotland (from her second marriage), Arabella was a claimant to the throne. In the reign of James I, she was imprisoned in the Tower for marriage to William Seymour (who also had a claim to the throne through the Suffolk line) without the monarch's consent. She died in the Tower and was laid to rest in Westminster Abbey near her Stuart relations.