How was the rule of the Stuart kings different from Elizabeth's rule?

Answer 1

The Stuarts were the descendants of Mary, Queen of Scots, and became the monarchs of England and Scotland after Elizabeth I's death. Elizabeth I was from the House of Tudor, which was a Protestant family, while the Stuarts were traditionally Catholic. However, the many of the Stuart monarchs converted to Anglicanism to become the monarch. The Stuarts, being the monarchs of Scotland for centuries, and the first Stuart monarch of England, James I, was the king that united England and Scotland under a single figurehead. It wasn't until the reign of the last Stuart monarch, Queen Anne, that the Kingdoms of England and Scotland were unified as the Kingdom of Great Britain.