The relationship between Mary, Queen of Scots and Elizabeth. I. Elizabeth I saw Mary, Queen of Scots as a threat and was keen to keep her under observation in England. Sir John Neale describes the ...

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 ...

Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, wrote of an unspecified great matter of state said to bear directly on the Queen’s life.

Over 400 after her death, newly decoded letters between Mary Queen of Scots and the French ambassador to England reveal her thoughts from when her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I, held her captive. A statue ...

Elizabeth I ordered the beheading of Mary, Queen of Scots, a Catholic claimant to the English throne, on this day in 1587 Sarah Holzmann Francis Drake's successful voyage included British sailors ...

A digital 3D model of Mary, Queen of Scots' death mask has been created ... for conspiring against her cousin Queen Elizabeth I. The digital death mask was created by Historic Environment Scotland ...

The most notorious royal to spend time there was Mary, Queen of Scots, great-granddaughter of King Henry VII and first cousin once removed to Queen Elizabeth I. She had claimed the throne of ...

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 ...

The Catholic threat undoubtedly revolved around Elizabeth’s cousin, Mary, Queen of Scots. She had become Queen of Scotland when her father, James V, was killed in battle against the English in 1542.

Mary, Queen of Scots was born in 1542, daughter of King James V of Scotland and Mary of Guise. Her father died just a week after her birth. A fervent Roman Catholic and a claimant to the English Crown ...