Thea Musgrave’s rarely performed Mary, Queen of Scots makes its London and English National Opera (ENO) premiere in February ...

Historian Gareth Russell has written Queen James, a biography of King James VI and I - the last king of Scotland - who moved to London ...

Elizabeth I ordered the beheading of Mary, Queen of Scots, a Catholic claimant to the English throne, on this day in 1587 Sarah Holzmann Mary, Queen of Scots, was beheaded at Fotheringhay Castle ...

A medieval castle in the Yorkshire Dales is set to reopen next month with a new season of events. Bolton Castle, near Leyburn ...

Eventually in 1603 Elizabeth died and James was offered the throne. The succession passed smoothly and James VI of Scotland became James I of England and Ireland. Although promising to return to ...

Being asked to review a Horrible Histories book has opened the floodgates of nostalgia. Childhood memories have come flooding ...

The tree is also linked to Mary Queen of Scots, Glasgow Live reports. According to legend, Henry Stewart (Lord Darnley) and his cousin Mary Queen of Scots sat under the tree while she nursed him ...

Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow started Mary’s Meals in a shed in the Highlands in 2002. Today the charity feeds more than 2.4 ...

In 1587, Mary, Queen of Scots, was beheaded. After attempting to restore Catholicism to Scotland and two disastrous marriages, she was forced to abdicate and fled to England in 1567. She was ...

‘Was it one of her own children?’ We were all suspects.” On the night she died, Mary was said to be happy and had been playing dominoes in her local pub. Get the latest news sent straight to ...

The seat is now headed by Richard Walter John Montagu Douglas Scott, 10th Duke of Buccleuch and it was atop his grandmother, Vreda Esther Mary Lascelles ... the other Austen children to discover how ...