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

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

Elizabeth I ordered the beheading of Mary, Queen of Scots, a Catholic claimant to the ... the new English queen had a tenuous claim to the crown. Her mother’s fall from favor and subsequent ...

The cup is on display at the Helena Thompson Museum A communion cup belonging to Mary Queen of Scots has "returned home". The cup, known as the Luck of Workington, had been donated by the royal to ...

A digital 3D model of Mary, Queen of Scots' death mask has been created ... but was imprisoned and forced to give up her crown in favour of her one-year-old son, James VI. She fled to England ...

Conscious of the benefits of an alliance with France, the Scots betrothed the young queen to Francis, the four-year-old heir to the French crown, and sent Mary to be raised at the court of Henry II.