Key term for Edexcel GCSE History, used in Queen, Government and Religion.
The core belief that a monarch is chosen by and answerable only to God, making it a sin for subjects to depose them.
Divine Right appears in Edexcel GCSE History revision content for Early Elizabethan England, especially Queen, Government and Religion and Mary, Queen of Scots.
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The Reigns of King Richard I and King John
Life and Government in England • Kingship and Succession
