January 19

It is never too early to give your children a push in the direction you see their careers heading. Frances II, whose father was Henry II, King of France, was born on the 19th in 1544. In 1548 Frances’s dad decided that his son had been a lazy do-nothing long enough and he arranged for the lad to marry Mary Stuart, who had been crowned Mary Queen of Scots on September 9, 1543, at the advanced age of 9 months.