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Lady Arbella Stuart (or "Arabella" and/or "Stewart") (1575 -- 25 September 1615) was an English Renaissance noblewoman who was for some time considered a possible successor to Queen Elizabeth I on the English throne. Arbella Stuart was the only child of Charles Stuart, 1st Earl of Lennox, (of the third creation), and Elizabeth Cavendish; she was a grandchild of Matthew Stewart, 4th Earl of Lennox, (of the second creation), and Lady Margaret Douglas, who was, in turn, the daughter of Archibald Douglas, 6th Earl of Angus and Princess Margaret Tudor and granddaughter of Henry VII of England. Arbella's paternal grandparents, the 4th Earl of Lennox and Margaret Douglas, had two sons: Arbella's father Charles and his older brother, Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, who became the second husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, and the father of James I of Great Britain. Arbella's maternal grandparents were Sir William Cavendish and Bess of Hardwick. Arabella's great great grandfather was King Henry VII of England, this meant she was in line to the throne of England. In her final days, as a prisoner in the Tower of London, Lady Beauchamp (her married name), refusing to eat, fell ill, and died on 25 September 1615. She was buried in Westminster Abbey on 29 September 1615. She did not aspire to the English throne.