Kingdom of England down. By 1588, her new navy was strong enough to defeat the Spanish Armada, which had sought to invade England to put a Catholic monarch on the throne in her place. The House of Tudor ended with the death of Elizabeth I on 24 March 1603. James I ascended the throne of England and brought it into personal union with the Kingdom of Scotland. Despite the Union of the Crowns, the kingdoms remained separate and independent states: a state of affairs which lasted for more than a century. The Stuart kings overestimated the power of the English monarchy, and were
Frederick Tudor Tudor was an uncle of Owen Frederick Morton Tudor, who married Larissa Tudor, a woman some people have claimed might have really been Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia. Frederick Tudor Admiral Sir Frederick Charles Tudor Tudor, (1863–1946) was a British Royal Navy officer who went on to be Third Sea Lord. Frederick Charles Tudor Jones was born on 29 March 1863, the son of Mr. H. R. Jones, of Harwich. He came first in order of merit out of forty-two candidates who passed the examination for naval cadetships in 1875. Jones was promoted to the rank of lieutenant with