November 19: Happy Birthday Charles I
The Tudor Minute
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Today in 1600 James VI of Scotland and his wife Anne of Denmark, had a son, Charles. This second son of James - who would become James I of England upon Queen Elizabeth’s death in 1603 - was never meant to be the King. His brother Prince Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales, died in 1612, and at that point Charles became the heir.