Over 400 after her death, newly decoded letters between Mary Queen of Scots and the French ambassador to England reveal her thoughts from when her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I, held her captive. A statue ...

Description of events leading up to the death of Mary, Queen of Scots. Description of events ... This was to be her downfall. The letters were intercepted by Elizabeth's spymaster Francis Walsingham.

In 1561, Mary, Queen of Scots, upset the applecart of the Protestant ... Walsingham's forgers doctored Mary's letters to elicit further information about the plot details and the other parties ...

Last week the cup went back on display "where it belongs", museum manager Tricia Poole said. Mary Queen of Scots was believed to have been sailing to France after losing the battle of Langside ...

Born into a political and religious maelstrom and the King of Scotland by the age of one, James VI found comfort in many places.

Mary, Queen of Scots was born in 1542, daughter of King James V of Scotland ... and the crafty devices of her mortal enemies, she was at last struck down by the axe (an unheard-of precedent, ...

Elizabeth I ordered the beheading of Mary, Queen of Scots, a Catholic claimant to the ... England's James I Meilan Solly Upper-class women used letters and embroidery to reflect on their inner ...