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| 48 | <p> Mary, queen of Scots is one of the most fascinating and
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| 49 | controversial monarchs of 16th century Europe.&nbsp; At one time, she
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| 50 | claimed the crowns of four nations - Scotland, France, England and
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| 51 | Ireland.&nbsp; Her physical beauty and kind heart were acknowledged
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| 52 | even by her enemies.&nbsp; Yet she lacked the political skills to rule
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| 53 | successfully in Scotland.&nbsp; Her second marriage was unpopular and
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| 54 | ended in murder and scandal; her third was even less popular and ended
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| 55 | in forced abdication in favor of her infant son.&nbsp; She fled to
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| 56 | England in 1568, hoping for the help of her cousin, Elizabeth I.&nbsp;
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| 57 | Her presence was dangerous for the English queen, who feared Catholic
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| 58 | plotting on Mary's behalf.&nbsp; The two queens never met and Mary
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| 59 | remained imprisoned for the next nineteen years.&nbsp; She was executed
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| 60 | in 1587, only forty-four years old.&nbsp; By orders of the English
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| 61 | government, all of her possessions were burned.&nbsp; In 1603, upon
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| 62 | Elizabeth's death, Mary's son became king of England as James I.</p>
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| 78 | </td>
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| 79 | <td valign="top" width="48%">&nbsp;
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| 80 | <p> &nbsp;</p>
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| 81 | <p> <font size="2"><b>FURTHER READING</b><br>
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| 82 | You may also view a <a
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| 83 | href="_httpextlink_&amp;rl=1&amp;href=http:%2f%2fenglishhistory.net%2ftudor%2frelative%2fmaryqoschronology.html">
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| 84 | chronology</a> of her life, read <a
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| 85 | href="_httpextlink_&amp;rl=1&amp;href=http:%2f%2fenglishhistory.net%2ftudor%2fprimary.html">Primary Sources</a>,
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| 86 | including letters written by Mary, view <a
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| 87 | href="_httpextlink_&amp;rl=0&amp;href=http:%2f%2fwww.marileecody.com%2fmaryqosimages.html">portraits of Mary</a>
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| 88 | and her contemporaries, test your knowledge of Mary's life at <a
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| 89 | href="_httpextlink_&amp;rl=1&amp;href=http:%2f%2fenglishhistory.net%2ftudor%2ftudor1.html">Tudor Quizzes</a>,
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| 90 | and learn more about her famous cousin, <a
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| 91 | href="_httpextlink_&amp;rl=1&amp;href=http:%2f%2fenglishhistory.net%2ftudor%2fmonarchs%2feliz.html">Queen
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| 92 | Elizabeth I</a>.</font></p>
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| 93 | <p> <font size="2"> <a
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| 94 | href="_httpextlink_&amp;rl=1&amp;href=http:%2f%2fenglishhistory.net%2ftudor%2frelative%2fmaryqosbiography.html#Sources">
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| 95 | Click here to view sources</a> for this biography; and <a
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| 96 | href="_httpextlink_&amp;rl=1&amp;href=http:%2f%2fenglishhistory.net%2ftudor%2frelative%2fmaryqosbiography.html#Weblinks">
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| 97 | click here for weblinks</a> related to Mary, queen of Scots.&nbsp; My
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| 98 | personal favorite is </font><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"> <a
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| 99 | href="_httpextlink_&amp;rl=0&amp;href=http:%2f%2fwww.marie-stuart.co.uk">The Marie Stuart Society of
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| 100 | Scotland</a> website.</font></p>
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| 101 | <p> &nbsp;</p>
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| 102 | <p> &nbsp;</p>
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| 103 | <p> <font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><b>NEWS&nbsp; April
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| 104 | 2004<br>
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| 105 | </b>Two new studies of Mary, queen of Scots have arrived in
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| 106 | bookstores.&nbsp; Jane Dunn's <i> <a
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| 107 | href="_httpextlink_&amp;rl=0&amp;href=http:%2f%2fwww.randomhouse.com%2fknopf%2fcatalog%2fdisplay.pperl%3f0375408983">
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| 108 | Elizabeth and Mary: Cousins, Rivals, Queens</a></i> is a dual biography
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| 109 | with a beautiful selection of portraits and judicious use of primary
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| 110 | sources.&nbsp; John Guy's <i> <a
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| 111 | href="_httpextlink_&amp;rl=0&amp;href=http:%2f%2fwww.houghtonmifflinbooks.com%2fcatalog%2ftitledetail.cfm%3ftitleNumber%3d688331">
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| 112 | Queen of Scots: The True Life of Mary Stuart</a></i> (published in the
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| 113 | UK as <a
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| 114 | href="_httpextlink_&amp;rl=0&amp;href=http:%2f%2fwww.amazon.co.uk%2fexec%2fobidos%2fASIN%2f184115752X%2fref%3dpd%5fsim%5fb%5fdp%5f2%2f026-6790542-2760433">
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| 115 | <i>My Heart is My Own: The Life of Mary Queen of Scots</i>)</a>
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| 116 | is the first biography dedicated to the Scottish queen in over thirty
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| 117 | years.&nbsp; Its central thesis argues that Burghley was the true
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| 118 | villain of Mary's story.<span style="font-weight: bold;"><br>
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| 119 | </span><b><br>
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| 120 | September 2004</b>: I am working on a new, detailed biography of
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| 121 | Mary.&nbsp; Please check back soon.</font></p>
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| 128 | <blockquote>
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| 129 | <blockquote>
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| 130 | <p>&nbsp;</p>
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| 131 | <p><b><font face="Arial"><a name="Biography"></a></font> </b> <font
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| 132 | face="Times New Roman" size="4">'As a sinner I am
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| 133 | truly conscious of having often offended my Creator and I beg him to
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| 134 | forgive me, but as a Queen and Sovereign, I am aware of no fault or
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| 135 | offence for which I have to render account to anyone here
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| 136 | below.'&nbsp;&nbsp; </font><font face="Times New Roman"><i><font
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| 137 | size="2">Mary, queen of Scots to her
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| 138 | jailer, Sir Amyas Paulet; October 1586</font></i></font></p>
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| 139 | <hr>
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| 140 | <p>In November 1542, King James V of Scotland, lay dying at his
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| 141 | beloved Falkland Palace, built just five years earlier.&nbsp; He was
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| 142 | devastated by his army's defeat by the English at Solway Moss and saw
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| 143 | little hope for the future.&nbsp; At Falkland, he was told that Mary of
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| 144 | Guise, his French-born wife once wooed by Henry VIII, had given birth
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| 145 | to a daughter at Linlithgow Palace on December 8.&nbsp; This was a
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| 146 | feast-day in honor of the Virgin Mary and many took it as a good omen
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| 147 | for the little <font face="Arial"> <img height="407"
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| 148 | alt="sketch of Mary, queen of Scots, age 12 or 13, by Clouet"
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| 149 | src="_httpdocimg_/maryqosmain13.jpg"
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| 150 | width="250" align="left" border="1"></font>princess; for her father,
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| 151 | however, it was otherwise.&nbsp; Upon receiving news of Mary's birth,
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| 152 | he reportedly said, 'Woe is me. My dynasty came with a lass.&nbsp; It
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| 153 | will go with a lass.'&nbsp; James's ancestor, Robert II, had become
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| 154 | King of Scots in 1371.&nbsp; The son of Robert the Bruce's daughter
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| 155 | Marjorie
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| 156 | and Walter, the High Steward of Scotland, Robert was nearest in
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| 157 | succession to the throne.&nbsp; He called his&nbsp; new dynasty
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| 158 | 'Stewart,' a variation on his father's title; in France, it was spelled
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| 159 | Stuart. Mary's father, James V, believed this lineage had ended with
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| 160 | his daughter's birth.&nbsp; He certainly never contemplated that his
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| 161 | grandson would one day rule both Scotland and its old enemy,
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| 162 | England.&nbsp; James died within a week of Mary's birth and, before she
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| 163 | was even a year old, the child was crowned queen of Scots. </p>
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| 164 | <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The regents of Scotland made a treaty with
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| 165 | Henry VIII in which Edward, Henry's long-awaited and precious son,
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| 166 | would wed Mary.&nbsp; But Henry VIII became increasingly erratic and
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| 167 | despotic in his later years and continued to send his army north.&nbsp;
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| 168 | In 1546, Henry also encouraged the murder of Cardinal Beaton, a great
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| 169 | Scots patriot; the proof - shortly before the murder, he had offered
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| 170 | one
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| 171 | thousand pounds for expenses associated with a plot to murder
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| 172 | Beaton.&nbsp; After this, the Scots were determined to avoid the
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| 173 | proposed English marriage. In July 1548, they sent the five-year-old
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| 174 | Mary to France, her mother's homeland.&nbsp; The Scots Parliament had
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| 175 | agreed to her marriage with Francis, the heir of Henry II, king of
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| 176 | France from 1547 to 1559.&nbsp; Mary sailed from Dumbarton Castle to
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| 177 | France, using this route to avoid English ships patrolling the English
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| 178 | Channel.&nbsp; According to most contemporary reports, Mary was
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| 179 | exceptionally lovely (even in an age when most noble women were
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| 180 | accorded the title of 'fair' or 'beautiful'), intelligent and full of
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| 181 | vitality.&nbsp; One French observer wrote admiringly: 'It is not
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| 182 | possible to hope for more from a Princess on this earth.'&nbsp; From
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| 183 | this vantage point, Mary's life seemed to be set on a glorious course;
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| 184 | but like a later foreign queen of France, Marie Antoinette, Mary's life
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| 185 | was not destined to be peaceful and happy. </p>
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| 186 | <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; When Mary left for Scotland, she traveled
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| 187 | with the children of Scotland's nobility, including the 'Four Maries,'
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| 188 | the women who would stay with her throughout her later imprisonment and
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| 189 | execution.&nbsp; They were Mary Fleming, Mary Seton, Mary Beaton and
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| 190 | Mary Livingstone.&nbsp; Mary Seton was the only one to die unmarried
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| 191 | and lived on until 1615, praying for Mary's soul and giving alms in her
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| 192 | memory.&nbsp; The group arrived in France in August 1548. </p>
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| 193 | <center>
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| 194 | <hr width="100%">
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| 195 | <p> <u><font size="+1">France, 1548-61</font></u></p>
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| 197 | <p>Mary was given a royal welcome in France by King Henry II.&nbsp;
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| 198 | He ordered that she would have precedence over his own daughters as she
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| 199 | was sovereign of an independent country and also because she was to wed
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| 200 | his heir, the Dauphin.&nbsp; The king also became very fond of the
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| 201 | child, saying, 'The little Queen of Scots is the most perfect child I
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| 202 | have ever seen.'&nbsp; While in France, Mary's maternal grandmother,
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| 203 | Antoinette de Guise, wrote to her daughter in Scotland that Mary was
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| 204 | 'very pretty, graceful and self-assured.' </p>
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| 205 | <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Mary was 5 when she first met the
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| 206 | four-year-old Dauphin, her betrothed husband.&nbsp; According to most
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| 207 | contemporaries, they were close and affectionate with one another even
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| 208 | as children.&nbsp; They traveled from one royal palace to another -
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| 209 | Fountaineblea to Meudon, or to Chambord or Saint-Germain.&nbsp; They
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| 210 | were always attended to by a retinue of servants and, even then, Mary
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| 211 | had developed a fondness for animals, especially dogs, which was to
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| 212 | continue throughout her life.&nbsp; Mary was also educated in the
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| 213 | traditional manner of French princesses; she spoke French and learned
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| 214 | Latin, Italian, Spanish and a little Greek.&nbsp; She learned to dance,
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| 215 | sing, play the lute as well as converse on religious matters.&nbsp; Her
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| 216 | religious tutor was the prior of Inchmahome, a Scottish priest.&nbsp;
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| 217 | When she was seven, her mother came to France to visit her; when Mary
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| 218 | of Guise returned to Scotland, neither realized that they would never
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| 219 | see each other again. </p>
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| 220 | <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; By the age of eleven, Mary was deemed to be
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| 221 | as intelligent and well-spoken as a woman of twenty-five by her doting
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| 222 | father-in-law.&nbsp; It is worth noting that the Guise family regarded
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| 223 | Mary as one of their own; not only was betrothed to the heir to the
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| 224 | throne but her mother was a Guise as well.&nbsp; Her uncle, Cardinal
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| 225 | Guise, taught her about statecraft, perhaps encouraging her natural
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| 226 | feelings of clemency and mercy.&nbsp; In fact, Mary was to be
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| 227 | remarkably free from bigotry during her short reign in Scotland, even
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| 228 | towards her subjects of a different religion. </p>
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| 229 | <p> <img
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| 230 | alt="portrait of Mary queen of Scots and her first husband, Francis II of France"
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| 231 | src="_httpdocimg_/maryfrancis-crop.jpg"
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| 232 | align="left" border="1" width="170" height="226"> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
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| 233 | In 1555, Mary sent back letters to her mother in Scotland to be used
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| 234 | for administrative purposes and it is from these that we first see her
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| 235 | royal signature <img
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| 236 | src="_httpdocimg_/marysig.jpg">'MARIE R'</a>.&nbsp;
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| 237 | In 1558, she married the Dauphin in an incredible celebration in
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| 238 | Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris.&nbsp; Exceptionally tall for a woman in
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| 239 | the 16th century, Mary was every inch the regal Queen; she had an oval
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| 240 | face, shapely chin, and small mouth which were set off by her
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| 241 | golden-red hair, her large forehead, and hazel eyes.&nbsp; Many
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| 242 | considered Mary to be the most beautiful princess in Europe, much as
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| 243 | they had thought of her relative, Henry VIII's sister, <a
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| 244 | href="_httpextlink_&amp;rl=1&amp;href=http:%2f%2fenglishhistory.net%2ftudor%2frelative%2fbrandon.html">Mary</a>,
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| 245 | who had also come to France as queen for a short while.&nbsp; Mary was
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| 246 | not always in the best of health but, unlike her husband, there were no
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| 247 | immediate concerns for her life. </p>
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| 248 | <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In 1558, <a
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| 249 | href="_httpextlink_&amp;rl=1&amp;href=http:%2f%2fenglishhistory.net%2ftudor%2fmonarchs%2fmary1.html">Queen Mary I</a>
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| 250 | of England passed away and Henry II of France encouraged his
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| 251 | daughter-in- law to assume the royal arms of England.&nbsp; In his
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| 252 | opinion - and that of most of Catholic Europe - Mary of Scotland was
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| 253 | the next heir to the English throne.&nbsp; This belief, of course,
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| 254 | would have serious repercussions throughout Mary's life.&nbsp;
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| 255 | Elizabeth I never forgot this first offense and never rested easily
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| 256 | while her Catholic relative was alive.&nbsp; But the matter was
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| 257 | smoothed over when Elizabeth was persuadd the assumption was due more
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| 258 | to Guise ambitions than Mary's actual wish.&nbsp; In 1559, Henry II of
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| 259 | France, died at the age of 40. Mary and her husband were crowned Queen
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| 260 | and King of France.&nbsp; But in June of 1560, Mary's mother died in
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| 261 | Scotland at the age of 45.&nbsp; And just six months later, her young
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| 262 | husband also died of an ear infection.&nbsp; Mary was understandably
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| 263 | devastated by this chain of tragic events.&nbsp; Thockmorton, the
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| 264 | English ambassador, commented that Francis had left 'as dolorous a wife
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| 265 | as she had good cause to be.&nbsp; By long watching with him during his
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| 266 | sickness and painful diligence about him' she had become exhausted and
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| 267 | made herself ill.&nbsp; She wrote a poem, in French, about her grief at
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| 268 | his death; this is a translation of one verse: </p>
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| 269 | <p><i>By day, by night, I think of him/ In wood or mead, or where I
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| 270 | be/ My heart keeps watch for one who's gone./ And yet I feel he's aye
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| 271 | with me.</i> </p>
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| 272 | <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; What was Mary to do next?&nbsp; She left for
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| 273 | Scotland, a land rife with religious and civil discord. Without waiting
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| 274 | for a safe-conduct pass from Elizabeth, whose ships were patrolling her
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| 275 | route, Mary set out for Scotland on 14 August 1561 and, five days
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| 276 | later, reached Leith, the port of Edinburgh. </p>
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| 277 | <center>
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| 278 | <p>&nbsp;</p>
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| 279 | <hr width="100%">
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| 280 | <p> <u><font size="+1">Scotland, 1561-68</font></u></p>
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| 282 | <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Mary knew very well that she was succeeding
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| 283 | to a most troubled heritage.&nbsp; But after her recent years of loss
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| 284 | and grief, she was determined to make a bright future.&nbsp; Also, in
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| 285 | an age of religious persecution which earned her cousin Mary Tudor the
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| 286 | nickname 'Bloody Mary,' Mary was determined that every one of her
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| 287 | Scottish subjects should worship God as their conscience bade; there
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| 288 | would be no religious persecution under her rule. &nbsp;In this, she
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| 289 | resembled her cousin <a
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| 290 | href="_httpextlink_&amp;rl=1&amp;href=http:%2f%2fenglishhistory.net%2ftudor%2fmonarchs%2feliz.html">Elizabeth I</a>.
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| 291 | </p>
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| 292 | <p> <img alt="copy of a French miniature of Mary, painted c1565"
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| 293 | src="_httpdocimg_/maryqos1565cr.jpg"
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| 294 | align="left" border="1" width="175" height="236"> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
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| 295 | The Scots received their new queen with great joy and
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| 296 | celebration.&nbsp; At once, she began to try and help them; within a
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| 297 | year of her arrival, one-sixth of all Church benefices was given to the
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| 298 | Protestant ministers to relieve their poverty.&nbsp; She also attempted
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| 299 | to strengthen the power of the Crown against Scotland's notoriously
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| 300 | difficult-to-control nobles.&nbsp; Of course, such a strategy would
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| 301 | lead to more peace and stability within the realm.&nbsp; As a result,
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| 302 | she was popular with the common people but not the nobility; she played
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| 303 | croquet, golfed, went for hunts and archery practice, sung, danced,
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| 304 | and, in general, showed an admirable zest for life.&nbsp; In 1562 the
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| 305 | English ambassador reported to Elizabeth, 'When the soldiers came back
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| 306 | from the night's sentry-duty, she said she was sorry she was not a man
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| 307 | to be all night on the fields and to walk the causeway with buff-coat,
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| 308 | steel-helmet, buckler, and broadsword.' </p>
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| 309 | <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In 1563, Mary began the traditional 'royal
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| 310 | progress' throughout Scotland.&nbsp; In 1564, the fourth Earl of Atholl
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| 311 | organized a great hunt in honor of the queen and, yet again, Mary
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| 312 | charmed all who met her.&nbsp; Yet she also treaded dangerous ground
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| 313 | with her policy of non-discrimination and desire to unify the nation,
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| 314 | taking power away from the independent nobles.&nbsp; Though a Catholic,
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| 315 | Mary became friends with one of the most learned Protestants of the
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| 316 | time, George Buchanan.&nbsp; In the political realm, Mary kept up
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| 317 | peaceful relations with France, Spain, and England, though she never
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| 318 | met Elizabeth face-to-face.&nbsp; But, in 1566, her patience was tried
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| 319 | by the English ambassador's persistent and obvious spying; she ordered
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| 320 | him out of the kingdom and declared him persona non grata.&nbsp; And
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| 321 | her peace with France and Spain was kept without a treaty, though a
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| 322 | treaty would have given Scotland some measure of protection against
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| 323 | England in the possibility of conflict.&nbsp; However, Mary was aware
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| 324 | that any treaty could compromise her subjects, involving them in yet
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| 325 | another war and causing strife.&nbsp; Above all, she wanted peace and
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| 326 | prosperity, and she kept Scotland safely distanced from political
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| 327 | machinations.&nbsp; When the threat to Mary's reign finally came, it
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| 328 | was not from one of these outside powers; indeed, it came from within
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| 329 | her own nation. </p>
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| 330 | <p> <img alt="Mary's second husband, Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley"
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| 331 | src="_httpdocimg_/darnley-crop.jpg"
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| 332 | align="left" border="1" width="150" height="197"> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
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| 333 | As queen, Mary was more than aware that she should marry and provide
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| 334 | heirs to the throne.&nbsp; In July of 1565, she wed a cousin named
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| 335 | Henry Stewart, Lord Darnley, a weak, vain, and unstable young man; like
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| 336 | Mary, he was also a grandchild of Henry VIII's sister Margaret.&nbsp;
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| 337 | Why Mary wed Darnley remains a mystery; he was superficially charming
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| 338 | and, unlike most men, taller than the queen. &nbsp;He was fond of
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| 339 | courtly amusements and thus a nice change from the dour Scottish lords
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| 340 | who surrounded her. &nbsp;But he never seemed to care for Mary and
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| 341 | sought far more power than she was willing to give him.&nbsp; When she
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| 342 | was six months pregnant in March of 1566, Darnley joined a group of
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| 343 | Scottish nobles who broke into her supper-room at Holyrood Palace and
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| 344 | dragged her Piedmontese secretary, David Riccio, into another room and
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| 345 | stabbed him to death.&nbsp; They claimed Riccio had undue influence
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| 346 | over her foreign policy but, in reality, they probably meant to cause
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| 347 | Mary, from watching this horrific crime, to suffer a miscarriage, thus
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| 348 | losing her child and her own life as well since one usually meant the
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| 349 | other in the 16th century.&nbsp; Mary certainly believed that Darnley,
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| 350 | angry because she had denied him the crown matrimonial, wanted to kill
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| 351 | her and the child, thus becoming King of Scots.&nbsp; But it is
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| 352 | unlikely that, had he been successful, Darnley would have long survived
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| 353 | his wife. </p>
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| 354 | <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; After Riccio's death, the nobles kept Mary
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| 355 | prisoner at Holyrood Palace.&nbsp; Entering the later stages of her
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| 356 | pregnancy, she was desperate to escape and - somehow - won over Darnley
|
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| 357 | and they escaped together.&nbsp; Three months later the future James VI
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| 358 | of Scotland was born and congratulations came from all over
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| 359 | Europe.&nbsp; Still young and healthy after the birth, Mary now had an
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| 360 | heir.&nbsp; This was the apex of her reign, her greatest and happiest
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| 361 | moment.&nbsp; In December 1566 James was baptized in the Chapel Royal
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| 362 | of Stirling Castle. Mary, once the fragile last hope of the Stewart
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| 363 | dynasty, was just 23 years old and had fulfilled one of a monarch's
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| 364 | greatest duties - providing a healthy son and heir.&nbsp; Elizabeth of
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| 365 | England, ten years older, watched these events with interest for, even
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| 366 | then, she knew her own future would be - by choice - unmarried and
|
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| 367 | childless.&nbsp; She could well imagine that Mary's son would be her
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| 368 | heir as well. </p>
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| 369 | <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; But this future soon seemed perilous for
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| 370 | James's birth provided only a temporary calm.&nbsp; The nobles who had
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| 371 | plotted with Darnley now felt betrayed by him; after all, they had
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| 372 | captured the queen and her potential heir, murdered her dear friend,
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| 373 | and were in a position to demand anything.&nbsp; But Darnley's decision
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| 374 | to help Mary escape infuriated them.&nbsp; In February of 1567 they had
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| 375 | Darnley's house, Kirk o' Field, blown up; Darnley's strangled body was
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| 376 | found in the garden.&nbsp; Many nobles were implicated, most
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| 377 | particularly James Hepburn, the Earl of Bothwell. Certainly Bothwell's
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| 378 | later life (imprisoned in Denmark, he died in 1578, virtually insane)
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| 379 | was a degree of punishment for this crime.&nbsp; However, in the
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| 380 | immediate aftermath of Darnley's murder, he met with Mary about six
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| 381 | miles outside of Edinburgh.&nbsp; He had 600 men with him and asked to
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| 382 | escort Mary to his castle at Dunbar; he told her she was in danger if
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| 383 | she went to Edinburgh.&nbsp; Mary, unwilling to cause further bloodshed
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| 384 | and understandably terrified, followed his suggestions.&nbsp;
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| 385 | Bothwell's noble friends had previously pressed her to marry him and
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| 386 | he, too, had told her she needed a strong husband who could help unify
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| 387 | the nobles behind her.&nbsp; Mary had refused the proposal then,
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| 388 | preferring to marry Darnley, but now she knew herself to be
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| 389 | powerless.&nbsp; She also had an infant son to consider. So she
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| 390 | consented to wed Bothwell, hoping that this would finally stabilize the
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| 391 | country.&nbsp; Also, Bothwell showed&nbsp;<img
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| 392 | alt="Mary's third husband, James Hepburn, Lord Bothwell"
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| 393 | src="_httpdocimg_/bothwell.jpg"
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| 394 | align="left" width="226" height="224"> Mary an agreement the nobles
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| 395 | had signed which indicated they were prepared to accept him as their
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| 396 | overlord.&nbsp; In May 1567 they wed at Holyrood and Mary wrote to the
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| 397 | foreign courts that it was the right decision for her country. </p>
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| 398 | <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; But the nobles were still not to be
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| 399 | trusted.&nbsp; Now, they were angry that Bothwell would be all-powerful
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| 400 | and they decided to wage war against him.&nbsp; Barely a month after
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| 401 | the marriage, rebel nobles and their forces met Mary's troops at
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| 402 | Carberry Hill, 8 miles south-east of Edinburgh.&nbsp; The nobles
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| 403 | demanded that Mary abandon Bothwell, whom they had earlier ordered her
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| 404 | to wed.&nbsp; She refused and reminded them of their earlier
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| 405 | order.&nbsp; To avoid the bloodshed of battle, she turned herself over
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| 406 | and the rebels took her to Edinburgh while Bothwell struggled to rally
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| 407 | troops of his own.&nbsp; Mary was taken to Lochleven Castle and held
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| 408 | prisoner in that island fortress; fearing for her own life, she became
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| 409 | desperately ill.&nbsp; She was forced to sign a document abdicating the
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| 410 | crown in favor of her year-old son.&nbsp; At the end of that month,
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| 411 | July 1567, James was crowned king and James Stewart, the Earl of Moray,
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| 412 | Mary's bastard half-brother, became Regent.&nbsp; Moray wasted no time
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| 413 | in repaying Mary's earlier kindness to him by stealing her son and
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| 414 | jewels.&nbsp; Of course, Scottish history reveals that all these
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| 415 | nefarious nobles came to a bad end - Moray was murdered just 3 years
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| 416 | later and the next regents were also killed; in fact, her son James had
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| 417 | one of the traitors executed in 1580, when he was just a teenager. </p>
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| 418 | <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Mary's cause was aided in 1568 when John Hay,
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| 419 | before his execution, made a statement from the scaffold that told how
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| 420 | the nobles had murdered Darnley.&nbsp; Before this, the nobles had
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| 421 | attempted to make the people believe Mary was responsible.&nbsp; Now,
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| 422 | she was able to win sympathy and friends.&nbsp; George Douglas, one of
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| 423 | the brothers of her keeper at Lochleven, helped her escape.&nbsp; After
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| 424 | 10 months of captivity, she was free to fight for the throne.&nbsp; Her
|
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| 425 | supporters gathered an army and, on their way to Dumbarton Castle, a
|
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| 426 | battle was fought at Langside, Glasgow.&nbsp; Mary's forces lost and
|
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| 427 | she was forced to flee with her supporters.&nbsp; Against all advice,
|
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| 428 | she was determined to go south and ask Elizabeth I for support.&nbsp;
|
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| 429 | As James's godmother and Mary's cousin as well as a fellow independent
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| 430 | Queen, Mary felt certain Elizabeth would help her.&nbsp; As most know,
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| 431 | this was the beginning of yet another chapter of suffering and misery
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| 432 | for Mary. </p>
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| 433 | <p>&nbsp;</p>
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| 434 | <hr width="100%">
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| 435 | <center>
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| 436 | <p><u><font size="+1">The Final Years, 1568-87</font></u></p>
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| 437 | </center>
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| 438 | <p>Mary set sail for England on 16 May 1568.&nbsp; She soon arrived
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| 439 | in Workington, Cumbria; Elizabeth did not know what to do and kept Mary
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| 440 | guarded in the north.&nbsp; After all, without Mary's knowledge, she
|
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| 441 | had been helping her enemies, promising money and&nbsp;<img
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| 442 | alt="Mary, queen of Scots and Lord Darnley, as portrayed by Vanessa Redgrave and Timothy Dalton in the film 'Mary Queen of Scots', 1971"
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| 443 | src="_httpdocimg_/maryqos-film.jpg"
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| 444 | align="left" border="1" width="280" height="247"> sanctuary in return
|
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| 445 | for their treacherous behavior against their queen.&nbsp; Elizabeth's
|
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| 446 | motives for this were obvious - Mary was the closest Catholic claimant
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| 447 | to the English throne and Elizabeth knew some of her subjects were not
|
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| 448 | above hoping she could be deposed and Mary made queen of both Scotland
|
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| 449 | and England.&nbsp; So she had determined to keep her cousin's kingdom
|
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| 450 | in continual strife; if Mary was busy at home, she would have less
|
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| 451 | chance to plot against Elizabeth.&nbsp; But Elizabeth's conscience was
|
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| 452 | determined to be clear so she appointed commissioners to look into the
|
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| 453 | matter; they met throughout 1568 and 1569.&nbsp; In December of 1569,
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| 454 | the so-called Casket Letters were first presented at Westminster.&nbsp;
|
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| 455 | They were supposedly letters and other papers belonging to Bothwell and
|
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| 456 | found in his casket (letter box).&nbsp; They disappeared soon
|
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| 457 | afterwards and only translations and copies remain.&nbsp; However, few
|
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| 458 | believed they were either real or important at the time for Elizabeth,
|
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| 459 | in January 1569, released a statement that 'Nothing had been
|
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| 460 | sufficiently proved, whereby the Queen of England should conceive an
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| 461 | evil opinion of her good sister.'&nbsp; Everyone took this to mean that
|
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| 462 | Mary was not guilty of any conspiracy alleged in the letters. </p>
|
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| 463 | <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; But in this same year, conservative nobles in
|
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| 464 | England supported an idea that Mary should wed the Duke of
|
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| 465 | Norfolk.&nbsp; This also indicated that Elizabeth, and most English
|
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| 466 | nobles, believed Mary innocent of Darnley's murder and any charges in
|
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| 467 | the Casket Letters.&nbsp; But Elizabeth did not consent to the marriage
|
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| 468 | and kept Mary under lock and key.&nbsp; Soon, this arrangement had
|
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| 469 | settled into stone; Mary was moved from prison to prison, eventually
|
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| 470 | ending up at Fotheringhay Castle, about 70 miles north-west of London
|
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| 471 | and as close to Elizabeth as she ever came.&nbsp; Of course, Mary
|
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| 472 | plotted from the very beginning to escape.&nbsp; She felt justified in
|
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| 473 | doing so since she was being held against her will.&nbsp; However, as
|
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| 474 | the years passed, the plots grew more outlandish and murderous.&nbsp;
|
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| 475 | Mary's imprisonment was only to end with her execution.<br>
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| 476 | <br>
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| 477 | &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <b>Read a more detailed account of <a
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| 478 | href="_httpextlink_&amp;rl=1&amp;href=http:%2f%2fenglishhistory.net%2ftudor%2fmonarchs%2feliz3.html">Mary's
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| 479 | arrival in England</a> and <a
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| 480 | href="_httpextlink_&amp;rl=1&amp;href=http:%2f%2fenglishhistory.net%2ftudor%2fmonarchs%2feliz4.html">the plots
|
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| 481 | which led to her trial and execution</a> at the <i>Queen Elizabeth I</i>
|
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| 482 | website.</b> </p>
|
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| 483 | <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In October of 1586, Mary was put on trial at
|
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| 484 | Fotheringhay for plotting to kill Elizabeth and claim the English
|
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| 485 | throne.&nbsp; Elizabeth's last letter to Mary was delivered at the
|
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| 486 | start of the trial: </p>
|
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| 487 | <blockquote>
|
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| 488 | <p>You have in various ways and manners attempted to take my life
|
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| 489 | and to bring my kingdom to destruction by bloodshed. I have never
|
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| 490 | proceeded so harshly against you, but have, on the contrary, protected
|
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| 491 | and maintained you like myself. These treasons will be proved to you
|
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| 492 | and all made manifest. Yet it is my will, that you answer the nobles
|
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| 493 | and peers of the kingdom as if I were myself present. I therefore
|
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| 494 | require, charge, and command that you make answer for I have been well
|
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| 495 | informed of your arrogance. <br>
|
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| 496 | &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Act plainly without reserve, and you will sooner be
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| 497 | able to obtain favour of me. <br>
|
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| 498 | &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Elizabeth.</p>
|
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| 499 | </blockquote>
|
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| 500 | <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Mary defended herself admirably though she
|
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| 501 | had no friends or supporters at the trial and, essentially, the verdict
|
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| 502 | had been decided before the proceedings had begun.&nbsp; Mary admitted
|
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| 503 | her desire to escape but stated, 'I have not procured or encouraged any
|
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| 504 | hurt against Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth.'&nbsp; And she appealed for
|
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| 505 | mercy, mentioning her own reputation for tolerance and kindness: 'My
|
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| 506 | subjects now complain they were never so well off as under my
|
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| 507 | government.'&nbsp; But she also accepted the inevitable, telling the
|
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| 508 | assembled nobles, 'May God keep me from having to do with you all
|
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| 509 | again.'&nbsp; When the verdict was read to her, she said, 'I do not
|
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| 510 | fear to die in a good cause.' </p>
|
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| 511 | <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The trial lasted just two days and was over
|
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| 512 | on 16 October 1586 but it was not until 7 February 1587 that she was
|
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| 513 | told she would be executed the next morning.&nbsp; She asked for her
|
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| 514 | chaplain but was refused this last comfort.&nbsp; The Earl of Kent
|
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| 515 | said: 'Your life would be the death of our religion, your death would
|
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| 516 | be its life.'&nbsp; In fact, Mary had been a tolerant ruler in Scottish
|
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| 517 | religious matters.&nbsp; But such was the extreme religious upheaval of
|
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| 518 | the time, tolerance itself was a sign of weakness.&nbsp; The
|
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| 519 | death-sentence was signed by Elizabeth who later argued that her
|
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| 520 | secretary Davison had deceived her as to its contents; she said she
|
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| 521 | would not have signed it otherwise.&nbsp; Her letter to Mary's son
|
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| 522 | James about the execution, written on 14 February, is a remarkable
|
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| 523 | document:</p>
|
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| 524 | <blockquote>
|
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| 525 | <p>My dear Brother, I would you knew (though not felt) the
|
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| 526 | extreme dolor that overwhelms my mind, for that miserable accident
|
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| 527 | which (far contrary to my meaning) hath befallen. I have now sent this
|
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| 528 | kinsman of mine, whom ere now it hath pleased you to favour, to
|
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| 529 | instruct you truly of that which is too irksome for my pen to tell you.
|
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| 530 | I beseech you that as God and many more know, how innocent I am in this
|
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| 531 | case : so you will believe me, that if I had bid aught I would have bid
|
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| 532 | by it. I am not so base minded that fear of any living creature or
|
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| 533 | Prince should make me so afraid to do that were just; or done, to deny
|
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| 534 | the same. I am not of so base a lineage, nor carry so vile a mind. But,
|
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| 535 | as not to disguise, fits not a King, so will I never dissemble my
|
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| 536 | actions, but cause them show even as I meant them. Thus assuring
|
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| 537 | yourself of me, that as I know this was deserved, yet if I had meant it
|
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| 538 | I would never lay it on others' shoulders; no more will I not damnify
|
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| 539 | myself that thought it not. <br>
|
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| 540 | The circumstance it may please you to have of this bearer. And for your
|
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| 541 | part, think you have not in the world a more loving kinswoman, nor a
|
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| 542 | more dear friend than myself; nor any that will watch more carefully to
|
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| 543 | preserve you and your estate. And who shall otherwise persuade you,
|
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| 544 | judge them more partial to others than you. And thus in haste I leave
|
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| 545 | to trouble you:&nbsp; beseeching God to send you a long reign. <br>
|
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| 546 | &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Your most assured loving sister and cousin, <br>
|
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| 547 | &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Elizabeth R.</p>
|
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| 548 | </blockquote>
|
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| 549 | <p>A year later, the Catholic Philip V of Spain invaded England
|
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| 550 | with his Armada, perhaps - to some degree - urged on by Mary's
|
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| 551 | execution. </p>
|
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| 552 | <p> <img
|
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| 553 | alt="Laslett John Pott's painting 'Mary Queen of Scots being led to execution', 1871"
|
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| 554 | src="_httpdocimg_/maryqos-death.jpg"
|
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| 555 | align="left" border="1" width="400" height="282"> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
|
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| 556 | Mary did not retire until two in the morning on the last day of her
|
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| 557 | life.&nbsp; She spent her final hours making a will and generously
|
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| 558 | providing to those who had served her faithfully.&nbsp; Early on the
|
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| 559 | morning of 8 February 1587, dressed in black satin and velvet, she
|
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| 560 | entered the Great Hall of Fotheringhay Castle.&nbsp; She commanded her
|
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| 561 | servant, Melville, to go to her son and tell him that she had never
|
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| 562 | done anything to compromise their kingdom of Scotland.&nbsp; Mary was
|
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| 563 | calm and composed before the several hundred spectators present; she
|
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| 564 | listened while the execution warrant was read and then prayed aloud in
|
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| 565 | English for the Church and her son.&nbsp; She also mentioned Queen
|
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| 566 | Elizabeth and prayed for her to continue to serve God in the years to
|
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| 567 | come. </p>
|
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| 568 | <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Mary comforted her weeping servants, her
|
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| 569 | friends and supporters to the last.&nbsp; They helped her undress;
|
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| 570 | beneath her all-black gown, she wore a red petticoat and bodice.&nbsp;
|
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| 571 | Her women helped her attach the long red sleeves.&nbsp; Mary thus died
|
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| 572 | wearing the liturgical color of Catholic martyrdom.&nbsp; She gave them
|
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| 573 | her golden rosary and Agnus Dei, asking them to remember her in their
|
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| 574 | prayers.&nbsp; Her eyes were covered with a white cloth.&nbsp; While
|
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| 575 | her servants wept and called out prayers in a medley of languages, she
|
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| 576 | laid her neck upon the block, commended herself to God and received the
|
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| 577 | death-stroke.&nbsp; But the executioner was unsteady and the first blow
|
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| 578 | cut the back of her head; Mary whispered, 'Sweet Jesus', and the second
|
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| 579 | blow descended.</p>
|
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| 580 | <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; When the executioner lifted her head and
|
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| 581 | cried out, 'God save the Queen,' a macabre surprise occurred.&nbsp;
|
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| 582 | Mary, queen of Scots had worn an auburn wig to her execution.&nbsp; It
|
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| 583 | was left in the executioner's hand as her head, with its short, grey
|
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| 584 | hair, fell to the floor.</p>
|
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| 585 | <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Mary had always loved animals and her little
|
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| 586 | Skye terrier had brought her great comfort during the years in
|
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| 587 | prison.&nbsp; It had curled itself around her feet while she knelt at
|
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| 588 | the block and died just days after the queen.&nbsp; As queen of Scots,
|
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| 589 | Mary's motto had been 'In my end is my beginning'.&nbsp; And certainly
|
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| 590 | the end of her life marked the beginning of her legend.&nbsp; The
|
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| 591 | Catholic nations which had condemned her behavior during Darnley's
|
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| 592 | murder and the marriage to Bothwell now celebrated her as a
|
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| 593 | martyr.&nbsp; Her former brother-in-law, Henri III of France, held a
|
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| 594 | funeral mass at Notre-Dame, where Mary had wed Francis almost thirty
|
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| 595 | years before.&nbsp; Accounts of her execution, illustrated by crude
|
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| 596 | woodcuts, were sold throughout Europe.&nbsp; She was now the
|
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| 597 | sympathetic heroine; the past could be forgotten.</p>
|
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| 598 | <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Sixteen years later, Mary's son
|
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| 599 | became King of England and Scotland.&nbsp; In 1612, he moved her body
|
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| 600 | to Westminster Abbey, London, constructing a magnificent tomb which
|
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| 601 | rivaled Elizabeth I's.&nbsp; In her <i> Essay on Adversity</i>,
|
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| 602 | written in 1580 while she was imprisoned, Mary had written of rulers:
|
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| 603 | 'Tribulation has been to them as a furnace to fine gold - a means of
|
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| 604 | proving their virtue.'&nbsp; It was a fitting epitaph for her own
|
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| 605 | infamous life.</p>
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| 606 | <center>
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| 607 | <p><font size="2">You can <a
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| 608 | href="_httpextlink_&amp;rl=1&amp;href=http:%2f%2fenglishhistory.net%2ftudor%2fmaryqos-letter.html"> read
|
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| 609 | Mary's last letter</a>, written to Henri III of France just six hours
|
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| 610 | before her execution, <br>
|
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| 611 | as well as <a href="_httpextlink_&amp;rl=1&amp;href=http:%2f%2fenglishhistory.net%2ftudor%2fexmary.html">an
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| 612 | eyewitness account of her execution</a> at the <i>Primary Sources </i>
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| 613 | section.<br>
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| 614 | &nbsp;</font></p>
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| 615 | <hr> </center>
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| 616 | </blockquote>
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| 617 | </blockquote>
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| 618 | <p align="center"><font face="Times New Roman"> <font size="2"> <b> <a
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| 619 | href="_httpextlink_&amp;rl=1&amp;href=http:%2f%2fenglishhistory.net%2ftudor%2frelative%2fmaryqoschronology.html"><br>
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| 620 | </a> </b> <a
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| 621 | href="_httpextlink_&amp;rl=1&amp;href=http:%2f%2fenglishhistory.net%2ftudor%2frelative%2fmaryqoschronology.html">CHRONOLOGY</a>
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| 622 | <br>
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| 623 | The major events of her life.</font></font></p>
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| 624 | <p align="center"><font face="Times New Roman"> <a
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| 625 | href="_httpextlink_&amp;rl=0&amp;href=http:%2f%2fwww.marileecody.com%2fmaryqosimages.html"><font size="2">IMAGES<br>
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| 626 | </font> </a><font size="2">Portraits of the queen, her friends and
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| 627 | family, with
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| 628 | commentary.</font></font></p>
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| 629 | <p align="center"> <font face="Times New Roman"> <a
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| 630 | href="_httpextlink_&amp;rl=1&amp;href=http:%2f%2fenglishhistory.net%2ftudor%2fprimary.html"><font size="2">PRIMARY
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| 631 | SOURCES</font></a></font><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><br>
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| 632 | Letters written by Mary, as well as an
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| 633 | eyewitness account of her execution.</font></p>
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| 634 | <p align="center"><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"> <a
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| 635 | href="_httpextlink_&amp;rl=1&amp;href=http:%2f%2fenglishhistory.net%2ftudor%2ftudor1.html">Tudor Quizzes<br>
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| 636 | </a>Test your knowledge of Mary's
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| 637 | life and times.</font></p>
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| 638 | <p align="center"><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><a
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| 639 | href="_httpextlink_&amp;rl=1&amp;href=http:%2f%2fenglishhistory.net%2ftudor%2fmonarchs%2feliz.html">Queen
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| 640 | Elizabeth I<br>
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| 641 | </a>Learn about Mary's famous cousin.</font></p>
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| 642 | <p align="center"><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"> <a
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| 643 | href="_httpextlink_&amp;rl=1&amp;href=http:%2f%2fenglishhistory.net%2ftudor%2frelatives.html">to Tudor
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| 644 | Relatives</a><br>
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| 645 | </font></p>
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| 646 | <div style="text-align: left; margin-left: 80px;"><br>
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| 647 | <small><a name="Sources"></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sources:</span>&nbsp;
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| 648 | Life of Mary, Queen of Scots (2 vol) by George Chalmers -&nbsp;</small>
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| 649 | <small>My Heart is My Own by John Guy</small> - <small>Mary, Queen of
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| 650 | Scots: The Daughter of Debate by Marjorie Bowen</small> - <small>Mary,
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| 651 | Queen of Scots: The Daughter of Debate (yes, same title - earlier book)
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| 652 | by Sir Arthur MacNalty</small> - <small>The Castles, Palaces, and
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| 653 | Prisons of Mary of Scotland by Charles MacKie</small> - <small>On the
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| 654 | Trail of Mary, Queen of Scots by JK Cheetham</small> - <small>The
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| 655 | Queen of Scots by Stefan Zweig</small> - <small>Mary, Queen of Scots
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| 656 | by Antonia Fraser</small>&nbsp; - <small>Mary, Queen of Scots by Susan
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| 657 | Watkins</small> - <small>Two Queens in One Isle by Alison Plowden - </small><small>The
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| 658 | Casket Letters: A Solution to the&nbsp; Mystery of Mary, Queen of Scots
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| 659 | and the Murder of Lord Darnley by MH Davison - </small><small>Tudor
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| 660 | Cousins: Rivals for the Throne by Dulcie Ashdown - </small><small>All
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| 661 | the Queen's Men by Gordon Donaldson - The First Trial of Mary, Queen of
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| 662 | Scots by Gordon Donaldson - Mary, Queen of Scots and the Murder of Lord
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| 663 | Darnley by Alison Weir - In My End is My Beginning: A Life of Mary,
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| 664 | Queen of Scots by James Mackay - Mary Queen of Scots: A Study in
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| 665 | Failure by Jenny Wormald - The Oxford Illustrated History of Tudor and
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| 666 | Stuart Britain, edited by John Morrill - Two Queens in One Isle by
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| 667 | Alison Plowden - New Worlds, Lost Worlds: The Rule of the Tudors by
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| 668 | Susan Brigden - The Life of Mary, Queen of Scots by Agnes Strickland -
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| 669 | The Mystery of Mary Stuart by Andrew Lang - Mary, Queen of Scots and
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| 670 | Her Accusers by John Hosack - Scotland Under Mary Stuart: An Account of
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| 671 | Everyday Life by Marjorie Bowen - Elizabeth and Mary by Jane Dunn -
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| 672 | Original Letters Illustrative of English History, edited by Henry Ellis
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| 673 | - Mary, Queen of Scots: A Study of the Lennox Narrative in the
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| 674 | University Library of Cambridge, edited by Reginald H. Mahon - The
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| 675 | Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland by Raphael Holinshed -
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| 676 | Letters of Mary, Queen of Scots, and Documents connected with her
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| 677 | personal history, edited by Agnes Strickland<br>
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| 678 | </small><br>
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| 679 | <br>
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| 680 | <small><a name="Weblinks"></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Weblinks:&nbsp;</span>
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| 681 | </small><small><font face="Times New Roman"><a
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| 682 | href="_httpextlink_&amp;rl=0&amp;href=http:%2f%2fwww.marie-stuart.co.uk">The Marie Stuart Society of
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| 683 | Scotland</a>&nbsp; This is the most detailed Mary, queen of Scots site
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| 684 | on the web.&nbsp; It has a&nbsp; lengthy biography of the queen,
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| 685 | samples of her poetry and letters, and much more - too much to list
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| 686 | here, in fact. </font></small>
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| 687 | <p><font face="Times New Roman"><small><a
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| 688 | href="_httpextlink_&amp;rl=0&amp;href=http:%2f%2fwww.geocities.com%2fles%5fvalois">Mary, queen of Scots</a>&nbsp;
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| 689 | This site is currently available in French.&nbsp; It's beautifully
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| 690 | designed and has lots of information; go visit and try out your foreign
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| 691 | language skills!&nbsp; Its creator also made this <a
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| 692 | href="_httpextlink_&amp;rl=0&amp;href=http:%2f%2fwww.geocities.com%2fsarah%5fn%5fbernard">Lady Jane Grey site</a>.<br>
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| 693 | </small></font></p>
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| 694 | <p><font face="Times New Roman"><small><a
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| 695 | href="_httpextlink_&amp;rl=0&amp;href=http:%2f%2fwww.newadvent.org%2fcathen%2f09764a.htm">The Catholic
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| 696 | Encyclopedia's biography of Mary</a>, with links to other topics.<br>
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| 697 | </small> </font></p>
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| 698 | </div>
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| 704 | </Section>
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| 705 | </Archive>
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