What relation was mary queen of scots to elizabeth the 1st?
A discount cousin. Mary I Queen of Scot’s paternal grandmother was Margaret Tudor, who was also Queen Elizabeth I’s aunt. Mary I Queen of Scot is not to be confused with Queen Mary I of England. They were two separate individuals although both existed around the same time and were also distant cousins. – Mary I Queen of Scot was Queen of Scotland (December 8, 1542 – February 8, 1587). She was a grand neice of King Henry VIII of England, her maternal grandmother Margaret Tudor was Henry VIII’s older sister. – Mary I of England was Queen of England and Ireland (18 February 1516 – 17 November 1558). She was the eldest daughter of Henry VIII and his first wife Catherine of Aragon.
Jeremy, two people who share one parent are half-siblings, not step-siblings. Elizabeth I and Mary I (aka Mary Tudor or Bloody Mary), as daughters of Henry VIII by different mothers, were half-sisters. Mary Queen of Scots was Elizabeth’s first cousin once removed–grand-daugher of Henry VIII’s older sister. By the laws of primogeniture, she was next in line for the English throne after Elizabeth (and her son became E’s successor), and to those who considered Elizabeth illegitimate and thus ineligible to succeed to the throne, Mary should have been Queen. Although no one asked about this branch of the family, Lady Jane Grey was another first cousin once removed–grand-daugher of Henry VIII’s younger sister.
