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 ...

The one constant of James' childhood was his tutor ... The key chapter of his reign involved two women - his mother, Mary Queen of Scots, and Elizabeth I of England. Throughout his reign James ...

Scotland's History The Stewarts James V dies, Mary becomes Queen The Adobe Flash player and Javascript are required in order to view a video which appears on this ...

Mary’s obsession with the English throne allowed Queen Elizabeth to manipulate her. Believing that marriage would be one way to distract Mary from her ambition to rule England, Elizabeth cannily ...

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It would be possible, having read Alan Stewart's careful and accomplished biography, to conclude that James was ... but James's was more dysfunctional than most. His mother, Mary, Queen of Scots, was ...

It has now been snapped up and republished by Hodder & Stoughton, which this month has also resurrected Pope-Hennessy’s long-out-of-print Queen Mary: The Official Biography of 1959, the raw materials ...

The death of a man who was found at a Scots industrial estate is being treated as unexplained, cops have confirmed. The person was found on February 10 at Baldovie Industrial Estate in Dundee.

The 17th-century artist’s likeness of the young Hapsburg, currently on view at the Norton Simon Museum in California, ...

The autopsy date for a Scots woman and her husband found dead in a suspected "torture" at their home in France has been revealed. French police are currently investigating the circumstances around ...