Tell Me Everything You Know About Mary Queen Of Scots.?

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Tell Me Everything You Know About Mary Queen Of Scots.?

Answer 1

Mary I of Scotland (popularly known as Mary, Queen of Scots) (December 8, 1542 – February 8, 1587) was Queen of Scots (the monarch of the Kingdom of Scotland) from December 14, 1542, to July 24, 1567. She was also the queen consort of France (Reine de France) from July 10, 1559 to December 5, 1560. After a long imprisonment in England she was tried and executed for treason. Because of her tragic life, she is one of the best-known Scottish monarchs.

With her marriage agreement in place, five-year-old Mary was sent to France in 1548 to spend the next thirteen years at the French court. Vivacious, pretty, and clever, Mary had a promising childhood. While in the French court, she was a favourite. She received the best available education, and at the end of her studies, she had mastered French, Latin, Greek, Spanish, and Italian in addition to her native Scots. She also learned how to play two instruments and learned prose, poetry, horsemanship, falconry, and needlework.

On 24 April 1558 she married the Dauphin François at Notre Dame de Paris. When Henri II died on 10 July 1559, Mary became Queen Consort of France; her husband became François II of France. Under the ordinary laws of succession, Mary was next in line to the English throne after her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I, who was childless. In the eyes of many Catholics Elizabeth was illegitimate, making Mary the true heir. Mary's paternal grandmother was Princess Margaret Tudor, the elder sister of Henry VIII and aunt of Elizabeth I.

Mary returned to Scotland soon after her husband's death and arrived in Leith on August 19, 1561. Despite her talents, Mary's upbringing had not given her the judgment to cope with the dangerous and complex political situation in the Scotland of the time.

At Holyrood Palace on 29 July 1565, Mary married Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, her first cousin. The union infuriated Elizabeth, who felt she should have been asked permission, as Darnley was an English subject. Elizabeth also felt threatened by the marriage, because both Mary and Darnley were claimants to the English throne, being direct descendants of Margaret Tudor, the elder sister of Henry VIII. Their children would inherit both parents' claims, and thus, be next in line for the English throne. The future King James I was born on 19 June 1566, and succeeded the English throne after Queen Elizabeth's death in 1603.

On April 24 Mary visited her son at Stirling for the last time. On her way back to Edinburgh Mary was abducted, willingly or not, by Bothwell and his men and taken to Dunbar Castle, where she was allegedly raped by Bothwell. She became pregnant with twins, which she later miscarried while imprisoned. Mary was put on trial for treason by a court of about 40 noblemen, including Catholics, after being implicated in the Babington Plot and after having allegedly sanctioned the attempted assassination of Elizabeth. Mary denied the accusation and was spirited in her defence.

Mary was ultimately convicted of treason, and was sentenced to beheading at Fotheringhay Castle, Northamptonshire on February 8, 1587. She had spent the last hours of her life in prayer and also writing letters and her will. She expressed a request that her servants should be released. She also requested that she should be buried in France.

Mary, being a devout Roman Catholic, was regarded with suspicion by many of her subjects as well as by Elizabeth, who was her father's cousin and the monarch of the neighbouring Protestant country. Scotland was torn between Catholic and Protestant factions, and Mary's illegitimate half-brother, James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray, was a leader of the Protestant faction.

Answer 2

Daughter of James V of Scotland and Marie Guise, which made her the great niece of Henry VIII.  First husband was Francois II? of France I think.  Her second husband was her cousin Henry Darnley.  I forgot her third husband's name.  Her son was James VI of England and James I of Scotland.  She was held prisoner by Elizabeth I for most of her life.