# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mary-queen-of-scots
# Generated: 2026-08-31T17:48:13.084Z

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name: "Mary, Queen of Scots"
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description: "A queen at six days old, a widow at eighteen, a prisoner for nearly two decades, and finally a beheaded threat — her life was a chain of thrones gained and lost, each one tightening the noose."
tagline: "Queen of Scotland from 1542 to 1567 (1542–1587)"
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birthDate: "1542-12-08"
deathDate: "1587-02-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Mary inherited Scotland's crown in December 1542, six days after birth, when her father James V died. Raised in France for safety during English invasions, she married the French dauphin in 1558 and became queen consort of France until his death in 1560. Widowed at eighteen, she returned to Scotland in 1561 to rule a Protestant kingdom as a Catholic monarch, navigating the charged aftermath of the Scottish Reformation with initial pragmatism. Her 1565 marriage to Lord Darnley collapsed after he orchestrated the murder of her secretary David Rizzio; Darnley himself was killed in an explosion in February 1567, and Mary married the suspected orchestrator, the Earl of Bothwell, a month later. An uprising forced her abdication in July 1567 in favour of her infant son James VI, and after a failed attempt to reclaim power, she fled to England seeking Elizabeth I's protection. Elizabeth, seeing Mary's claim to the English throne and her support among Catholics as a threat, held her captive for eighteen and a half years before executing her at Fotheringhay Castle in 1587 for plotting assassination.