• Mary, Queen of Scots (1542-1587)
• Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots

and 1st spouse: Francois II de Valois, King of France
(this is a miniature from the Book of Hours of Catherine de Medici)
• Mary, Queen of Scots

(about the time of her marriage to Francois II de Valois)
• Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots in mourning at 18

(artist:  Francois Clouet)
• Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots in mourning at 18
• 2nd spouse: Henry Stewart, Lord Darnley (1545-1567)
• 2nd spouse: Henry Stewart, Lord Darnley (1545-1567)
• The murder of Henry Stewart, Lord Darnley (1545-1567)

(showing the events surrounding the murder of Darnley.  The house where he was staying, at Kirk o' Fields, just outside Edinburgh, was blown up by gunpowder.  The bodies of Darnley and his valet were found in a nearby orchard, with no marks of burning on them.  Apparently, they had escaped from the house, and been killed by strangling, but there had been no time to put the bodies back inside before the house blew up.  In the upper left corner of the sketch, the infant Prince James can be seen saying "Judge and avenge my cause, O Lord")
• 3rd spouse: James (Hepburn) 4th Lord Bothwell

(One month after the murder of Darnely, Mary Queen of Scots married her third husband, the man everyone thought was the murderer:  James Hepburn, Earl of Bothwell.  One month after that, Mary  was forced to abdicate)
• Mary, Queen of Scots abt 1578
• Mary, Queen of Scots with her son James VI/I (1566-1625)
• Mary, Queen of Scots
• The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots

(detail from the Memorial Portrait.  Mary spent 19 years as a prisoner in England, constantly plotting, until the English had finally had enough and chopped off her head)
• Tomb of Mary Queen of Scots in Westminster Abbey

(Mary had originally been buried at Peterborough Cathedral after her execution,
but was re-interred at Westminster by her son, King James VI/I)
•  James Stuart, Earl of Moray (1531-1570)

(after Mary Queen of Scots abdicated, her half-brother, James Stuart, Earl of Moray, became Regent for her infant son, James VI.  A few years later, he was assassinated.  Mary gave the assassin a pension)
 
• Mary, Queen of Scots (short biography)
• Mary, Queen of Scots (another short biography)

 

 

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