Mary, Queen of Scots

A Romantic Account of the Life and Times of

Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots

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Mary Stuart, Queen of Scotland, Queen Consort of France
Born: 7 December 1542
Parents: James V and Mary of Guise
Acceded
14 December 1542
Married: Francis, Dauphin of France,
24 April 1558
Reine
de France:
10 July, 1559 - 5 December, 1560
Married: Henry Stewart, Lord Darnley,
29 July 1565
Married: James Hepburn, Earl of Bothwell,
15 May 1567
Abdicated: 24 July 1567
Died: Fotheringhay, 8 February 1587
Buried at Peterborough
Reburied at Westminster Abbey

The life of Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots is cloaked by history and shrouded in mystery. Did Mary truly love Lord Darnley? Did she see him as a dashing saviour knight, only to have her innocent heart broken by his abusive nature? How much of his murder was she aware? Was Mary, Queen of Scots, involved in plots to assassinate and depose her powerful cousin, Queen Elizabeth I of England? Or was she simply a pawn in the intrigues of her time?

Statue of Mary, Queen of Scots, flanked by John Leslie, Bishop of Ross, and William Maitland of Lethington, on the east facade of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh. Sculpted by William Birnie Rhind.
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Photo: Jonathan Oldenbuck

Mary nobly met her death, by execution, on a cold, February morning in England. We are left with a story, a mystery and a mystic that beckons us to search further. A search into her tragic life and equally tragic death.

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