Arbella Stewart as a toddler. Arbella Stuart (or "Arabella" and/or &q
Arbella Stewart as a toddler. Arbella Stuart (or “Arabella” and/or “Stewart”) (1575 – 9/27/1615) was for some time considered a possible successor to Queen Elizabeth I on the English throne. Arbella Stuart was a direct descendant of King Henry VII of England. As the only child of Charles Stuart, Earl of Lennox & Elizabeth Cavendish, she was a grandchild of Matthew Stewart, 4th Earl of Lennox & Margaret Douglas, who was, in turn, the daughter of Margaret Tudor.
