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

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 just ...

Last Updated on February 18, 2025 Mary’s stage rule is as short as her real one The rarely performed Mary, Queen of Scots ...

Then in 1977 came her full-scale opera Mary, Queen of Scots, given by Scottish Opera ... and John Findon as a fine, burly Earl of Bothwell, who is another turncoat, coming to defend Mary but ...

135 years after Richard's birth, the castle became the site at which Mary, Queen of Scots, was executed ... 12th century by Simon de Senlis I, the Earl of Northampton. Possession later passed ...

Questions over James' dedication to the Protestant cause led to a group of nobles led by William Ruthven (1st Earl of Gowrie ... two women - his mother, Mary Queen of Scots, and Elizabeth I ...

Soprano Heidi Stober will bring Musgrave’s radiant melodies to life on stage as Queen Mary. She will be joined by two former ENO Harewood Artists Alex Otterburn as James Stewart, Earl of Moray and ...

James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray (c. 1531 – 23 January 1570) was a member of the House of Stewart as the illegitimate son of King James V of Scotland. A supporter of his half-sister Mary, Queen of ...

This was a conspiracy between English Catholics and continental powers to overthrow Elizabeth and replace her with Mary Queen of Scots. The earl also apologises in the letter for his elusiveness ...

Mary turned her attention to the Earl of Bothwell, a brusque, coarse, and violent man, as her saviour. Mary once again alienated herself from both the Scottish Lords and also Queen Elizabeth through ...

8th: In 1592, Lady Margaret Campbell of Argyll brought the body of her son, James Stewart (later Stuart), 2nd Lord Doune, 2nd Earl of Moray ... Old College; Mary, Queen of Scots’ husband ...