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Mary, Queen of Scots
Mary Stuart had a laborious life since her father had died when she was only a few days old making her Queen of Scots, her marriages ended up with her husband's passing away, & her cousin Queen Elizabeth of England held her in prison for almost twenty years and later exiled The Queen of Scots for treason.
On December 8th, 1542 in Linlithgow Palace in West Lothian, Mary of Guise and James V of Scotland, had a daughter named, Mary Stuart (Mary, Queen). The article states that six days after her birth her father passed away on December 14, his death was caused by a nervous breakdown and dysentery disease making his daughter become queen. Due to her age she was unable to rule Scotland, her great uncle, Henry VIII, made a proposal for control but her mother Mary of Guise eventually became regent. When Mary was five years old she
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They stayed with Queen Mary throughout the time she was alive and her imprisonment. When she arrived she was sent to her grandmother, Antoinette of Guise, where she was given a proper education, and was taught many languages such as French, Latin, Italian, Spanish, and a small amount of Greek (Mary, Queen of Scots).
Queen Mary’s first marriage was with Francis, Dauphin on April 24, 1558 (The Marriage). According to the article she was seventeen and Francis was fifteen when they both wed in the cathedral of Notre Dame, Paris. She became the queen of France in 1559, however a year after their marriage the King of France passed away due to an ear infection, leaving the queen a widow at the age of eightteen. In 1565, she fell in love and married her cousin, Henry Stuart, Earl of Darnley (Mary, Queen of Scots). It states that her marriage to Darnley made her half-brother James turn against her and it also made Queen Elizabeth aggravated. Queen Mary soon began developing feelings for her secretary, close friend, and Italian musician, David

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