On 24 April 1603, Giovanni Carlo Scaramelli, the Venetian Secretary in England reported that the execution of the new King’s mother, Mary Queen of Scots, was ‘…an indignity to a crowned head that has no parallel in history except the cases of…the two adulterous Queens of Henry VIII of England, Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard, and Jane, who rebelled against Mary of England.’
Extract can be found in the following:
The Stolen Crown: Treachery, deceit and the death of the Tudor dynasty by Tracy Borman
