Key term for Edexcel GCSE History, used in Queen, Government and Religion.
The formal, legal act of a monarch giving up their throne, which Mary was forced to do in 1567.
Abdication appears in Edexcel GCSE History revision content for Early Elizabethan England, especially Queen, Government and Religion and Mary, Queen of Scots.
Early Elizabethan England
Queen, Government and Religion • Mary, Queen of Scots
Weimar and Nazi Germany
The Weimar Republic • Origins of the Republic
Russia and the Soviet Union
The Revolutions of 1917 • February Revolution
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