In 1561, Mary, Queen of Scots, upset the applecart of the Protestant ... into doubt the threat they posed to Elizabeth was very real. It became clear that while Mary lived Elizabeth would not ...

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 ...

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 ...

A digital 3D model of Mary, Queen of Scots' death mask has been created to ... Death masks are a mould taken of an individual’s face after death and have been made by different cultures across ...

Mary Queen of Scots was one of the biggest ... It was actually given to Robert the Bruce, who in real life became the King of Scots. Also, in reality Robert didn’t betray William.

Back in the 1970s, before neglect of women composers was recognised as an urgent issue (with resultant automatic entry to the ...

The cup is on display at the Helena Thompson Museum A communion cup belonging to Mary Queen of Scots has "returned home". The cup, known as the Luck of Workington, had been donated by the royal to ...

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 ...

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 ...