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  1. Apr 2, 2014 · Reign. Mary was the Queen of Scotland from her father’s death in December 1542 until she was forced to abdicate the throne to her infant son James in July 1567. Following her first husband ...

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    • Erika Berlin
    • Mary became Queen of Scotland when she was 6 days old. Mary's father, James V of Scotland, had become king at just 17 months old when his father was killed in battle.
    • She is not Bloody Mary. Mary, Queen of Scots—a.k.a. Mary Stuart—had many things in common with Mary Tudor, a.k.a Mary I. They were both Catholic (though Mary Stuart did not persecute her Protestant subjects); they were both Tudors (Scots Mary's grandmother was Margaret Tudor, the eldest daughter of King Henry VII, the first monarch of the House of Tudor); and they both had major beefs with Elizabeth I (Mary Tudor's half-sister and Mary, Queen of Scots's first cousin once removed).
    • Mary changed the spelling of the family name. The Stewarts were the ruling family of Scotland for centuries, starting in 1371 with Robert II (a grandson of Robert the Bruce).
    • Mary was fluent in Latin. She was also fluent in French and the Scots dialect of the Lowlands (and was proficient in Italian, Spanish, and Greek), but the Seigneur de Brantôme, a soldier and historian who had known Mary as a child in the French court and wrote a memoir of her long after her death, recalled that around the age of 13 or 14, she "recited publicly, in the presence of King Henri, the Queen, and the entire court, in a room of the Louvre, a speech in Latin composed by herself, sustaining against the common belief the thesis that it is becoming in women to be acquainted with literature and the liberal arts."
  3. Cecilia Cavendish-Bentinck. Signature. Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon [b] (4 August 1900 – 30 March 2002) was Queen of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Commonwealth from 11 December 1936 to 6 February 1952 as the wife of King George VI. She was concurrently the last Empress of India until the British Raj was ...

    • Rachel Dinning
    • Queen of Scots and Queen of France. Mary was crowned on 9 September 1543. She lived at Stirling Castle until she was five, protected by her clever and determined mother.
    • Two queens in one isle, 1561–1565. The view that Mary knew nothing about Scotland and only spoke French is mistaken. Nevertheless, it was an unfamiliar country to which she returned.
    • Did Mary, Queen of Scots murder Lord Darnley? Mary has been criticised for choosing Darnley but there was much to recommend him, especially dynastically.
    • Mary’s third marriage and downfall, 1567–1568. Darnley’s death compromised Mary’s ability to govern, as well as casting a stain on her reputation. A dangerous power vacuum developed in Scotland and one man saw a way of capitalising on it.
  4. Elizabeth skillfully avoided doing anything that Mary might have used as grounds for her execution and, upon Mary’s death in 1558, went on to become one of England’s most illustrious monarchs. How did Elizabeth I come to be queen of England? Queen Elizabeth I’s right to the throne wasn’t always guaranteed. Her father, King Henry VIII ...

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