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| 50 | alt="miniature portrait of Mary, queen of Scots, c1575, by an unknown artist"
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| 52 | <i><font size="2">Miniature portrait of Mary, queen of Scots,
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| 53 | c1575, by an unknown artist.</font></i></font></p>
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| 54 | <p><font face="Times New Roman"><br>
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| 55 | <font size="-1">If you would like to look at
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| 56 | Scottish royal genealogy, <a
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| 57 | href="../scottish.html">click here</a>.</font><font size="2">
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| 58 | </font></font> </p>
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| 59 | <p><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="-1">Read <a
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| 60 | href="../maryqos-letter.html">Mary's last
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| 61 | letter</a>, an eyewitness account of <a
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| 62 | href="../exmary.html">her execution in
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| 63 | 1587</a>, and other documents relating to her life at <a
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| 64 | href="../primary.html">Primary Sources</a>.</font><font size="2">
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| 65 | </font>
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| 66 | </font> </p>
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| 67 | <p><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="-1">Elizabeth I wrote a letter
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| 68 | to Mary at her trial, and about the execution to Mary's son, King James
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| 69 | VI. <a
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| 71 | her letters here</a>.</font><font size="2"> </font> </font> </p>
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| 72 | <p><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="-1">Portraits of Mary, her
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| 73 | parents, husbands and child, with commentary, can be found at the
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| 74 | <a href="http://www.marileecody.com/maryqosimages.html">Tudor
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| 75 | England: Images</a> site.</font><font size="2"> </font> </font> </p>
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| 76 | <p><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="-1">If you are interested in
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| 77 | further research, <i>The Catholic Encyclopedia</i> features <a
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| 78 | href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09764a.htm">an article on Mary's
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| 79 | life</a>.</font><font size="2"> <br>
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| 80 | </font>
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| 81 | <font size="-1"><i>Encyclopedia Britannica</i> also has <a
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| 82 | href="http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?eu=52479">an article about
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| 83 | Mary</a>.</font><font size="2"> </font> </font> </p>
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| 84 | <p><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="-1">And the most comprehensive
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| 85 | website about the Scottish queen is maintained by <a
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| 86 | href="http://www.marie-stuart.co.uk/">The Marie Stuart Society of
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| 87 | Scotland</a>.</font><font size="2"> </font> </font> </p>
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| 101 | <p><font face="Times New Roman"><big><b>1542</b></big><br>
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| 102 | 8 December; Mary Stuart is born at Linlithgow Palace<br>
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| 103 | 14 December; James V, King of Scots, Mary's father, dies at 31 </font>
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| 104 | </p>
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| 105 | <p><font face="Times New Roman"><big><b>1543</b></big><br>
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| 106 | Mary crowned Queen of Scots </font> </p>
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| 107 | <p><font face="Times New Roman"><big><b>1546</b></big><br>
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| 108 | Cardinal Beaton is murdered; ascendancy of pro-French party<br>
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| 109 | </font></p>
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| 110 | <p><font face="Times New Roman"><big style="font-weight: bold;">1547<br>
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| 111 | </big>January; King Henry VIII of England dies<br>
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| 112 | March; King Francis I of France dies<br>
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| 113 | 10 September; battle of Pinkie; Scots defeated by English forces led by
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| 114 | duke of Somerset; new French king, Henry II, sends troops and money to
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| 115 | Scotland; Mary is betrothed to Henry II's heir Francis, dauphin of
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| 116 | France<br>
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| 117 | </font> </p>
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| 118 | <p><font face="Times New Roman"><big><b>1548</b></big><br>
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| 119 | August; Mary sent to France </font> </p>
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| 120 | <p><font face="Times New Roman"><big><b>1550</b></big><br>
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| 121 | Mary's mother, Mary of Guise, visits her in France </font> </p>
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| 122 | <p><font face="Times New Roman"><b><big>1554</big><br>
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| 123 | </b>Mary of Guise is officially named Regent in Scotland </font>
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| 124 | </p>
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| 125 | <p><font face="Times New Roman"><big><b>1558</b><br>
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| 126 | </big>Fifteen-year-old Mary marries the 14-year-old Francis,
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| 127 | dauphin of France, in Paris<br>
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| 128 | Queen Mary I of England dies and
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| 129 | Elizabeth Tudor becomes Queen<br>
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| 130 | Mary's father-in-law quarters her arms with those of England, offending
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| 131 | Elizabeth
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| 132 | </font> </p>
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| 133 | <p><font face="Times New Roman"><big><b>1559</b></big><br>
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| 134 | Death of King Henry II of France; Francis and Mary are crowned king and
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| 135 | queen of France </font> </p>
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| 136 | <p><font face="Times New Roman"><big><b style="font-weight: bold;">1560</b><br
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| 138 | </big>June; Mary of Guise passes away in Scotland<br>
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| 139 | December; Mary's husband, Francis, Mary's husband, passes away </font>
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| 140 | </p>
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| 141 | <p><font face="Times New Roman"><b><big>1561</big><br>
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| 142 | </b>Mary returns to Scotland </font> </p>
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| 143 | <p><font face="Times New Roman"><b>1562</b> Northern campaign and
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| 144 | visit to Inverness; aged 19 </font> </p>
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| 145 | <p><font face="Times New Roman"><b>1563</b> Mary visits
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| 146 | Inveraray,Dunure Castle, Dumfries, and Peebles; aged 20 </font> </p>
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| 147 | <p><font face="Times New Roman"><b>1564</b> Mary hunts near Blair
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| 148 | Atholl, Tayside; aged 21 </font> </p>
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| 149 | <p><font face="Times New Roman"><b>1565</b> Mary marries her
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| 150 | 19-year-old cousin Henry Stewart, Lord Darnley; aged 22 </font> </p>
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| 151 | <p><font face="Times New Roman"><b>1566</b> Mary's Piedmontese
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| 152 | secretary, David Riccio/Rizzio, is murdered; Mary's only child born
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| 153 | (James, later king of Scotland and England); aged 23 </font> </p>
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| 154 | <p><font face="Times New Roman"><b>1567</b> Mary's husband, Lord
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| 155 | Darnley, murdered; Mary weds James Hepburn, the 30-year-old Earl of
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| 156 | Bothwell; the Carberry Hill confrontation; Mary is imprisoned at
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| 157 | Lochleven Castle; Mary's one-year-old son James is crowned as James VI
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| 158 | of Scotland; aged 24 </font> </p>
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| 159 | <p><font face="Times New Roman"><b>1568</b> Mary escapes from
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| 160 | Lochleven Castle; Battle of Langside, Glasgow; Mary flees to England;
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| 161 | aged 25 </font> </p>
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| 162 | <p><font face="Times New Roman"><b>1568-87</b> Mary is held captive
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| 163 | in various English prisons; aged 25-44 </font> </p>
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| 164 | <p><font face="Times New Roman"><b>1569</b> Elizabeth exonerates
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| 165 | Mary from the charges made against her; aged 26 </font> </p>
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| 166 | <p><font face="Times New Roman"><b>1578</b> Mary's third husband,
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| 167 | the earl of Bothwell (age 41), dies in a prison in Denmark; aged 35 </font>
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| 168 | </p>
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| 169 | <p><font face="Times New Roman"><b>1580</b> Mary writes <i>Essay
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| 170 | on Adversity</i> in prison; aged 37 </font> </p>
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| 171 | <p><font face="Times New Roman"><b>1586</b> Mary is tried for
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| 172 | conspiring to kill Elizabeth; aged 43 </font> </p>
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| 173 | <p><font face="Times New Roman"><b>1587</b> on 8 February, Mary is
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| 174 | executed in the Great Hall of Fotheringhay Castle, Northamptonshire </font>
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| 175 | </p>
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| 176 | <p><font face="Times New Roman"><b>1603</b> Queen Elizabeth I dies
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| 177 | in March & Mary's only child, James VI of Scotland, becomes James I
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| 178 | of England. He is the first King of both Scotland and
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| 179 | England. He moves his mother's body to Westminster Abbey
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| 180 | and has a grand monument built. <br>
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| 186 | href="maryqos.html#Biography">Read
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| 187 | the biography of Mary, queen of Scots</a>.</font></p>
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| 189 | href="maryqos.html">to Mary,
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| 190 | queen of Scots main page</a></font></p>
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