With the 96-year-old US-resident composer in attendance, the opening of Thea Musgrave’ s Mary, Queen of Scots was an event of ...

And so to the final new production of English National Opera’s season; Mary, Queen of Scots, directed by Stewart Laing and ...

With the 96-year-old US-resident composer in attendance, the opening of Thea Musgrave’ s Mary, Queen of Scots was an ... Mary’s concern for her child (the future King James VI of Scotland ...

Then in 1977 came her full-scale opera Mary, Queen of Scots, given by Scottish Opera, which they brought to London for a couple of performances at Sadler’s Wells in 1980. English National Opera ...

Mary Queen of Scots was believed to have been sailing to France after losing the battle of Langside when her ship was blown off course and ended up in Siddick, between Workington and Maryport.

Mary’s troubled reign was certainly full of incident. Following the death of her husband Francis II of France in 1560, she made her way back to Scotland, where she had become queen in 1542 when ...

On February 8, 1971, the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations (Nasdaq) opened. In 1960, the ...

Historian Gareth Russell has written Queen James, a biography of King James VI and I - the last king of Scotland - who moved to London ...

Eventually in 1603 Elizabeth died and James was offered the throne. The succession passed smoothly and James VI of Scotland became James I of England and Ireland. Although promising to return to ...