In 1561, Mary, Queen of Scots, upset the applecart of the Protestant Reformation. Her husband, Francois II, King of France had died unexpectedly, and the Scots were more than a little surprised by ...

Sir John Neale describes the agony of Elizabeth I as she is forced to decide the fate of her cousin.

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

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 ...

Genius doesn't always tally with equal opportunities, to paraphrase Doris Lessing. Opera houses have a duty to put on new ...

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 ...

Scotland's History The Reformation Mary returns to rule Scotland The Adobe Flash player and Javascript are required in order to view a video which appears on this ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The medieval Edelwood Castle, which is thought to have been linked to Mary, Queen of Scots, has been discovered by a group of ...

A digital 3D model of Mary, Queen of Scots' death mask has been created to mark the 437th anniversary of the monarch's execution. Mary was beheaded in Fotheringhay Castle in Northamptonshire on 8 ...