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Greg’s Mary Queen of Scots presentation. Mary was born on the 8 th December 1542 in Linlithgow Palace. Her father was James V, her mother was Mary of Guise. Mary was a Catholic.
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Mary was born on the 8th December 1542 in Linlithgow Palace. Her father was James V, her mother was Mary of Guise. • Mary was a Catholic .
Not long after Mary was born her father James V had passed away so that meant that Mary had become Queen at only one week old .
Mary had to travel to France on a boat from Scotland when the weather was horrendous . • When she arrived in France she married Francis II and then became Queen of France from 10th July 1559 to 5th December 1560 .
She grew up and was educated in France, probably the happiest time of her life. Then her husband Francis II died and she left France and went back to Scotland. Mary would be next in line to the English throne after her cousin Queen Elizabeth I who was childless .
She returned to Scotland when she was 19 and she married her handsome young cousin Lord Henry Darnley. Darnley was very jealous of Mary's private secretary David Rizzio. Darnley accompanied by a group of nobles, murdered Rizzio in front of Mary.
Then Mary gave birth to James VI who was born on 19th June 1566. Henry darnly had to get moved to a house in Edinburgh and he was already ill. He was recovering from syphilis so Mary visited him frequently. Then in February 1567 there was an explosion at the house in Kirk o’Field and Darnly was found dead in a garden but he wasn't killed in the explosion he died of strangulation.
On the 24th April 1567 Mary visited her son in Stirling for the last time. On her way back to Edinburgh Mary was abducted by Bothwell and his men and taken to Dunbar castle. While she was there she became pregnant with twins which she later miscarried while imprisoned. On the 6th May, Mary and Bothwell both returned to Edinburgh and on 15th May they returned to the palace of Holyroodhouse. Mary and Bothwell were married , according to the Protestant rites.
The Scottish nobility turned against Mary and Bothwell and raised an army against them. Mary and Bothwell confronted the lords at Carberry Hill on the 15th June, but there was no battle as Mary agreed to follow the Lords on condition that they let Bothwell go. However, the Lords broke their promise, and took Mary to Edinburgh and imprisoned her in Loch Leven Castle.
Mary was forced to abdicate the Scottish throne in favour of her one-year-old son James VI on 24th July 1567. Mary escaped from Loch Leven prison and again managed to raise a small army. After her army's defeat at the Battle of Langside on the 13th May, she fled to England. When Mary entered England on 19th May she was imprisoned by Elizabeth’s officers at Carlisle.
When Mary entered England on 19th May she was imprisoned by Elizabeth’s officers at Carlisle. During her imprisonment, she famously had the phrase En ma Fin git mon Commencement (“In my end is my beginning”) embroidered on her cloth of estate. Mary was moved to Bolton Castle on the 16th July and then on to Tutbury Castle on 26th January 1569.
Mary was put on trial for treason by a court of 40 noble men including Catholics, after having allegedly sanctioned the attempted assassination of Elizabeth. Mary denied the accusation. In the trial presided over by Lord Chancellor, Sir Thomas Bromley and Attorney General Sir John Popham. Mary was convicted of treason and was sentenced to beheading at Fotheringhay Castle.
Mary spent the last few hours of her life in pray and also writing her will. She requested that she should be buried in France. • On 8th February 1587 she was beheaded at the age of 44 years and buried in Peterborough Cathedral, Westminster Abbey.
