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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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    time and place for many kings and queens. At this time many countries had monarchies. One ruler of this time was Mary Queen of Scots. According to British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), Mary Stuart was born to Mary of Guise and James V of Scotland in Linlithgow Palace during the December of 1542. Since Mary’s father died while she was only six days old, she was handed the title of queen and Mary’s mom acted as regent (1). Mary had a tough life, as did anyone who lived in the 1500’s. She had…

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    History Script Introduction: Mary, Queen of Scots (also known as Mary Stuart), lived between 1542 and 1587. She was the only child of James V of Scotland and Mary of Guise, and through her grandmother Margaret Tudor, Mary had the strongest claim to the throne of England after the children of Henry VIII. This claim (and her Roman Catholicism) made Mary a threat to Elizabeth I of England (who was a protestant), as many English Catholics wanted Mary on the throne in the place of Elizabeth.…

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    Nataly Oliver Mrs. Gawith English 1 26 January 2016 Mary Queen of Scots withheld the throne of Scotland at a young age but grew up having troubles being the right queen. When Mary Queen had been born she had to take a big part of the family. “She was born at Linlithgrow Palace, West Lothian on 8 December 1542” (Mary Queen of Scots Biography). “Mary became Queen of Scots when she was six days old.” (The official website of the British Monarchy). “She was the daughter of King James V of…

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    Mary Queen of Scots was executed on the 8th of February 1587, for high treason against the Queen. Her cousin, and Queen of England, Elizabeth I was reluctant to order the execution of Mary, as she was concerned that there would be dire consequences. The consequences were dire, but not nearly as bad as Elizabeth imagined they would be. The results of the execution impacted on the lives of the English people in many ways. Mary Stuart, or Mary I of Scotland, fled her home country of Scotland in…

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    Mary queen of Scots was born on December 8, 1542 in Linlithgow, UK and is the daughter of James V and Mary of Guise. Before she was even born she had 2 other brothers, but both of them unfortunately died as infants. This left her the only living child, meaning the only heir to the throne of Scotland. To add on to these horrific events, a week after she was born her father had died. From this downfall, the English invaded part of their country and in order for their country to be strong once…

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    repealed by Queen Mary I, the daughter of King Henry vii. She was a devout catholic and reinstated Catholicism as England’s official state religion. Mary was very unforgiving of those who chose protestant faith and burned many at the stake, this would help build hostility between the prostatpnts and Catholics for generations to come, and affecting how Victorian politics would be shaped. In 1559 a new act of supremacy was passed by queen Elizabeth I, she also passed the act of uniformity which…

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    In England during the 1500s, there had been only male monarchs and the females were only given the title of being Queen through marriage. However, in 1135 when Henry I had died, a female had the first chance to become Queen. Matilda, the daughter of King Henry I was going to be Queen of England, “not in the conventional sense of a king’s wife, but in the unprecedented form of a female king” (Castor, 2010). However, Matilda lost the crown of England to King Henry I’s nephew Stephen because he was…

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    was Mary Queen of Scots the greatest threat to Elizabeth’s security? It is often debated on whether this was the case, or if Mary fell below the Catholics or the Spanish on the list of dangers to Elizabeth’s security. These differences could be down to looking at different evidence, or simply different perceptions of the same evidence based upon personal opinion and previous knowledge, but it is also important to…

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    You know that game you play in the mirror Bloody Mary ya that's based off me hi my name is Mary Tudor also known as Bloody Mary. I was the first child that survived birth to Henry the 8th and Catherine of Aragon I was born on February 18th 1516 at the palace of Placentia and was already promised to marriage at the age of two I was married to the prince of France but my father at the age of 9 made me get a…

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