Mary Stuart's father reportedly predicted that the Scottish throne would end with a woman. But no one could have foreseen the ...

The letter, written in prison hours before her execution, is on display in Scotland for the first time in 30 years, ...

Adelaide festivalThis won’t be everyone’s cup of tea, but Huppert delivers an exacting performance in Robert Wilson’s hypnotic, incantatory play ...

Mary, Queen of Scots, is a remarkable piece of work, offering pointed comment on the place of women in the sixteenth-century court and on the mythology that casts Mary as a martyr. With striking ...

A leading scholar on the life of Mary Queen of Scots is calling for the language used to refer to the first years of her reign to be changed ...

A leading scholar on the life of Mary Queen of Scots is calling for the language used to refer to the first years of her ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The painting "Historical Scene with Mary Queen of Scots and a Kneeling Nobleman" from 1877 shows the last moments of Mary Queen of ...

Feb. 8 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1587, Mary Queen of Scots was beheaded, charged with conspiring to kill England's Queen Elizabeth I. In 1692, a doctor in Massachusetts Bay Colony said two ...

Arguably the most famous Scottish royal, Mary, Queen of Scots left her mark in history. Born in 1542 and queen of Scotland until 1568, she was also briefly the queen of France. A great-granddaughter ...

For the next eight years, Scotland was, on and off, subjected to violent warfare, initiated by her great-uncle, Henry VIII, in the hope of marrying Mary to his heir, Edward VI. A union of their ...

When Protestant Queen Elizabeth's spy master Sir Francis Walsingham entrapped Mary Stuart corresponding secretly with Catholic plotter Sir Anthony Babington, she was imprisoned for 18 years. She spent ...