Mary, Queen of Scots
Queen of Scotland from 1542 to 1567 (1542-1587) · United Kingdom · Historical Figures · Died at 44
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Something wrong?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.
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![Both Mary and her father King James V were born at Linlithgow Palace in West Lothian, Scotland.[2]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Linlithgow_Palace_NW_03.jpg/500px-Linlithgow_Palace_NW_03.jpg)
Both Mary and her father King James V were born at Linlithgow Palace in West Lothian, Scotland.[2]
Gold coin (22 Shillings) of 1553: obverse, coat of arms of Scotland; reverse, royal monogram
Mary and Francis in Catherine de' Medici's book of hours, c. 1574. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris.![Coat of arms sent from France in July 1559.[48] Sinister: Mary's arms as Queen of Scotland quartered with the arms of England, reflecting her claim to the English throne. Dexter: Francis's arms as Dauphin of France and king consort of Scotland, with an inescutcheon of England.](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/Royal_Arms_of_the_Kingdom_of_Scotland_%281559%29.svg/330px-Royal_Arms_of_the_Kingdom_of_Scotland_%281559%29.svg.png)
Coat of arms sent from France in July 1559.[48] Sinister: Mary's arms as Queen of Scotland quartered with the arms of England, reflecting her claim to the English throne. Dexter: Francis's arms as Dauphin of France and king consort of Scotland, with an inescutcheon of England.![Mary's all-white mourning garb earned her the sobriquet La Reine Blanche ("the White Queen").[59] Portrait by François Clouet, 1560.](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/MaryQueenofScotsMourning.jpg/1280px-MaryQueenofScotsMourning.jpg)
Mary's all-white mourning garb earned her the sobriquet La Reine Blanche ("the White Queen").[59] Portrait by François Clouet, 1560.
Mary's royal arms from the Tolbooth in Leith (1565), now in South Leith Parish ChurchIn their own words 4
, Look to your consciences and remember that the theatre of the world is wider than the realm of England.
In my end is my beginning.
There is but one true kirk and that is the kirk of rome.
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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.
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