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17 de feb. de 2011 · The life of Mary, Queen of Scots has all the ingredients of a Hollywood thriller: a love triangle, treachery, rape and murder. Dr Saul David takes a closer look at the role of Mary's lover,...
- Mary's Epic Journey
- Fleeing Like A Madwoman?
- The Perils of Travel
- Dramatic Decline
- Mary and Bothwell - A Love Match?
There isn’t a better or worthier example of the confusion and disagreement on this subject than the incredible journey Mary made to be by Bothwell’s side at Hermitage Castle (pictured) after he was seriously injured. A journey that has been romanticised and mythicised like no other, in my opinion. QUICK LINK: Explore Mary's story from your own home...
Mary's chronicler George Buchanan, once a staunch supporter but later to become her strongest critic, wrote that she immediately fled like a madwoman to be at her lover’s side, tended to Bothwell in the privacy of his chambers and also engaged in passionate embraces with him, before bringing him back to Jedburgh, where she installed him into the ro...
Critics also point out that the horse ride of fifty miles in one day was far beyond what would be usual in those days, especially with the terrain in early Scottish winter being as unwelcoming as it was, but this was a woman who rode for 25 miles side-saddle whilst six months pregnant, and with her love of hunting and hawking, was far more comforta...
What has never been doubted, though, was the serious illness that Mary suffered on her immediate return. It’s now been established that she inherited the disease of porphyria, which caused her to vomit and convulse at times of stress, before making a seemingly remarkable recovery. At Jedburgh it affected her in the extreme, almost certainly brought...
It is my opinion that Mary saw Bothwell as a man who she could rely on, and after hearing of his injuries was seriously concerned as to his well-being, maybe more due to self-preservation. If a love affair did take place, and I personally doubt it, then surely it would have been at a later date once they had married and Mary had effectively complet...
Mary, Queen of Scots, towered over her contemporaries in more ways than one. Not only was she a female monarch in an era dominated by men, she was also physically imposing, standing nearly...
4 de jul. de 2022 · The story of the three husbands of Mary Queen of Scots: Francis II of France, Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley and James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell.
Mary, Queen of Scots (8 December 1542 – 8 February 1587), also known as Mary Stuart or Mary I of Scotland, was Queen of Scotland from 14 December 1542 until her forced abdication in 1567. The only surviving legitimate child of James V of Scotland, Mary was six days old when her father died and she inherited the throne.
- 14 December 1542 – 24 July 1567
- Mary of Guise
James Hepburn, 1st Duke of Orkney and 4th Earl of Bothwell ( c. 1534 – 14 April 1578), better known simply as Lord Bothwell, was a prominent Scottish nobleman. He was known for his marriage to Mary, Queen of Scots, as her third and final husband.
11 de feb. de 2022 · There’s the famous, fiery and fateful relationship between Mary Queen of Scots and Lord Darnley. Maybe Burns’ A Red, Red Rose makes you cry every time? Did you know that one of the relics of St Valentine resides in a Glaswegian church?
