Why was Mary Queen of Scots executed?

Question

What did she do?

Answer 1

Because she was a Catholic Queen that was a challenger to the throne of England when England was turning protestant and Elizabeth I already sat on the throne.

Accession to the throne was often a bloody affair in those times - read up on Lady Jane - the 9-day Queen of England (another victim of Elizabeth I).

Answer 2

Long story. Check this out. http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/mar...

Answer 3

She was Catholic, and also was also close to the English throne.  Elizabeth - who was persecuting Catholics at the time, got the idea from some of her conniving advisors that Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, wanted the English throne (which Mary likely didn't - although some of HER advisors may have been plotting against Elizabeth).  So they accused her of treason, and Elizabeth got rid of her.

Ironically, Mary's son ruled upon Elizabeth's death - both Scotland and England.

Answer 4

She tried to wrest the throne of England from her Sister Elizabeth 1.  

She was actually executed for treason but it was to keep her from posing a further threat to Young Bess.

Answer 5

She was Catholic for one in a predominately Protestant country.

Answer 6

Queen Liz the 1st was the first Drug trafficar.In 1606 she was behind the traffic of Opium from India to China,through the east Indian shipping company.They also traffic slaves through her slave trader John Hawkings.She knighted him Sir John Hawkings.

1830 the royals distance themselves from drug dealing by granting opium monopoly rights to David Sassoon family agent for the crown.He shared his dope profits with Queen Victoria.When China barred opium Sassoon and the British retaliated through the opium wars of 1843 and 1858. The forces of the market defeat the chinese moral postion. Sassoon and the crown forced drug addiction on an entire nation,stole the island of Hong Kong and made it the capitol of British international Drug Trade.

In 1872 Queen Victoria knighted David Sassoons son Edward Albert Sassoon, who spread the illeagal opium trade through China and Japan. In 1887 Edward sassoon married Aline Caroline Rothschild,and so joined the pirated fortunes of the Sassoon drug cartel to the Rothschild money cartel. Today  its business as useuall for the decendants of the Sassoon and Rothschild families,who socialise with Queen Liz the 2nd and prince Charles as elite members of Britains inner circle.Many have been granted titles like Sir , countess, baron, and marquee. But there many victims are not fooled by the crowns and the titles and have other names for them. Sutch as Liars, Theives, Drug Dealers, and mass murderers for the crown.

Answer 7

conspired to remove Prince Charles from the throne

Answer 8

she was tried and executed for treason

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Mary I

Queen of Scots; Queen consort of France (more...)



Portrait by unknown artist, c. 1560–1592

Reign 14 December 1542 – 24 July 1567

Coronation 9 September 1543

Predecessor James V

Successor James VI

Consort Francis II of France (1558–1560)

Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley (1565–1567)

James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell (1567–1578)

Issue

James VI (I of England)

Royal house House of Stuart

Father James V

Mother Mary of Guise

Born 8 December 1542

Linlithgow Palace, West Lothian

Died 8 February 1587 (aged 44)

Fotheringhay Castle, Northamptonshire

Burial Peterborough Cathedral; Westminster Abbey

Mary I (popularly known as Mary, Queen of Scots: French: Marie, reine des Écossais, and also known as Mary II and I to English Legitimists); (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 period of protective custody in England she was tried and executed for treason following her involvement in 3 plots to assassinate Elizabeth I of England and place herself on the throne.Also because of her tragic life, she is one of the best-known Scottish monarchs.This is somewhat ironic as she only had 1/32 nd Scottish blood from James I who started the pattern of marrying foreign consorts, thus reducing the quantity of actual Scottish ancestry in the direct royal line.

Answer 9

Because she was thought to be a threat to the English throne after it bacame Protestant.

Answer 10

She was a threat, not to mention an embarrassment to the Stuart/Tudor families.

Answer 11

,Elizabeth the first of England was frightened that she was after the throne, and probable had an eye for Elizabeth's men.

Who knows the true answer, as there were few people who could read the scrips might have put down anything to suit the purpose at the time???????

The story goes while in Carlise jail she would play football with the guards and was able to go out for walks around the town and the people were fond of her, so she must have been a bit of allright, anyway she was getting too popular so she got the chop. This is what I was told while visiting the old jail / tower.

Is it true or faulse who knows we have just got to beleive what we read

Answer 12

She was a threat to queen Elizabeth the 1st

Answer 13

Mary Queen of Scot was executed for two main reasons:

Mary, Queen of Scot was a threat to Elizabeth I, who according to many had a better claim to the English throne. 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, thus making Mary the true heir. However the Third Succession Act of 1543 provided that Elizabeth would succeed Mary Tudor on the throne.

Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, was an “adulteress and liar” who plotted to kill her husband in order to marry her lover. Far from being the saintly and wronged Roman Catholic monarch portrayed in portraits and films, Mary was actually a “moral loose cannon”, whose striking beauty and s*x appeal gave Elizabeth other reasons to imprison and execute her. Mary was charged with treason for plotting the assassination of Elizabeth after 19 years of imprisonment in the Tower.

Note: Mary Stuart was a remarkable figure being 5ft11in when the average woman was around 4ft 11in, so she was the equivalent of 6ft5in by modern standards. She was also beautiful and very sexually attractive. All in all, Mary Queen of Scots was a very dangerous creature to the unmarried Protestant Elizabeth, and her physical presence made her positively intoxicating to anyone who met her.

Answer 14

Largely becuase of her religion.