Excerpt from Historical Portraits of the Tudor Dynasty and the Reformation Period, Vol. 4 AT the accession of Elizabeth, she had four cousins who had claims to the Crown - namely, Mary Queen of Scots, the granddaughter of Margaret, Queen of Scotland, elder sister of Henry VIII next came Catherine and Mary Gray, daughters of Henry, Marquis of Dorset, * and granddaughters of Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, by Mary, known as the Queen Duchess, and younger sister to King Henry VIII. Lady Eleanor Brandon, the second daughter of Mary, the Queen Duchess, became the wife of the: Earl of Cumberland, and the daughter of this lady was known in early life as Margaret Clifford, and subsequently Countess of Derby. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.