In 1561, Mary, Queen of Scots ... trade and business with Catholics. Most Scots, however, found this more than a little impractical and formed a vast army of compromisers – holding society ...

Description of events leading up to the death of Mary, Queen of Scots. Description of events ... Having escaped from Lochleven in 1568, only for her army to be defeated at the Battle of Langside ...

Mary, Queen of Scots was beheaded for treason in the Great Hall of Fotheringhay Castle in England by order of her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I, on this day in history, Feb. 8, 1587. The Queen of ...

Saoirse Ronan and Margot Robbie royally shine in Mary Queen of Scots: EW review Mary Queen of Scots reviews stoke Oscar fire for 'savagely strong' Saoirse Ronan Queens Saoirse Ronan, Margot ...

The cup is on display at the Helena Thompson Museum A communion cup belonging to Mary Queen of Scots has "returned home". The cup, known as the Luck of Workington, had been donated by the royal to ...

Then in 1977 came her full-scale opera Mary, Queen of Scots, given by Scottish Opera, which they brought to London for a couple of performances at Sadler’s Wells in 1980. English National Opera ...

Queen of France at 16 and widowed at 18, Mary defies pressure to remarry. Instead, she returns to her native Scotland to reclaim her rightful throne. But England is under the rule of the ...

Mary, Queen of Scots never quite hits true operatic heights of emotion, but is suitably atmospheric for a dark and wet February night. Mary, Queen of Scots is at the London Coliseum on 18 February ...

An army likes ... nicked by Edward I during the Wars of Independence, but their trees thrived. The fame of the Jedburgh pears spread. In the 15th century Mary, Queen of Scots was a fan.

Listen to renowned historian Dr John Guy’s lecture on Elizabeth I and Mary, Queen of Scots. He discusses these two anointed queens who never met in life yet they lie buried at Westminster Abbey just a ...

Mary, Queen of Scots was born in 1542, daughter of King James V of Scotland ... When Mary fled to England after her army was routed in 1568 she was confined by Elizabeth and was finally executed at ...

Elizabeth I ordered the beheading of Mary, Queen of Scots, a Catholic claimant to the English throne, on this day in 1587 Sarah Holzmann On this day in 1542, the Battle of Solway Moss left James V ...