Who Was Mary, Queen of Scots? Mary, Queen of Scots, also known as Mary Stuart, was the queen of Scotland from December 1542 until July 1567. The death of Mary’s father, which occurred just days after her birth, put her on the throne as an infant. She briefly became queen consort ...
It was an exciting and a dangerous time to be alive, and to be a queen.Mary was Queen of Scotland when she was one week old. At sixteen, she was also Queen of France. She was tall and beautiful, with red-gold hair. Many men loved her and died for her.But she also had many ...
Mary, Queen of Scots: Directed by Charles Jarrott. With Vanessa Redgrave, Glenda Jackson, Patrick McGoohan, Timothy Dalton. During the sixteenth century, the Catholic Mary, Queen of Scots engages in over two decades of religious and political conflict wi
Mary, Queen of Scots, was barely one week old when she succeeded to the throne in 1542. The murder 25 years later of Henry Lord Darnley, her consort and the father of the infant who would become King James I of England and James VI of Scotland, remains one of history's most notoriou...
In 1561, nineteen-year-old Mary (Saoirse Ronan), Catholic Queen of Scotland (now under control of Protestants, returns to her home country from France following the death of her husband, Francis II of France, to take up her throne, where she is received by her half-brother, the Earl of...
Mary’s marriage didn’t last long. Her husband died the next year, in 1560, leaving her a widow at the age of 18. In 1561, with her influence and power in France now gone due to the death of her husband, she decided to return to Scotland to take up her duties as queen. ...
Mary Queen of Scotspicks up in 1561 with the eponymous queen’s return to her native country. Widowed following the unexpected death of her first husband, France’s Francis II, she left her home of 13 years for the unknown entity of Scotland, which had been plagued by factionalism and reli...
The story of Mary, Queen of Scots, is still well known more than 400 years after her death. But while her life story is fascinating, her most significant legacy resulted from the birth of her son, James VI. James made it possible for the Stuart line to continue, and for Scotland, Irel...
Mary Stuart was the only legitimate daughter of King James V of Scotland and Mary of Guise of France. At six days old, Mary instantly became Queen of Scotland after the death of her father in 1542. Because of her inability to rule, her mother, French Mary of Guise acted on her behalf...
Mary Queen of Scots' Worst Week Ever: With Bruce Fummey. An account of the events leading up to Mart Queen of Scots forced marriage to her third husband, James Hepburn.