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.
Early Elizabethan England
Queen, Government and Religion • Mary, Queen of Scots
Early Elizabethan England
Queen, Government and Religion • Situation on Accession
The Reigns of King Richard I and King John
Life and Government in England • Kingship and Succession
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