Description of events leading up to the death of Mary, Queen of Scots. Description of events leading up to the death of Mary, Queen of Scots. The relationship between Mary, Queen of Scots and ...

In 1561, Mary, Queen of Scots, upset the applecart of the Protestant Reformation. Her husband, Francois II, King of France had died unexpectedly, and the Scots were more than a little surprised by ...

Mary, Queen of Scots was born in 1542, daughter of King James V of Scotland and Mary of Guise. Her father died just a week after her birth. A fervent Roman Catholic and a claimant to the English Crown ...

On this day in 1542, the Battle of Solway Moss left James V enfeebled and ill, clearing the way for his young daughter, Mary, Queen of Scots, to claim the throne weeks later Eli Wizevich Peter and ...

Dr John Guy, a history fellow at the University of Cambridge who wrote the 2004 biography of Mary Queen of Scots, said the discovery was "a literary and historical sensation". "This is the most ...