Musgrave focuses on Mary’s return to Scotland in 1561 and the events leading to her abdication in 1567. It is Mary’s relationship with various men that leads the narrative; her half-brother James who ...

Anna Groundwater, a curator at National Museums Scotland, talked about the particular appeal of pieces related to Mary, Queen of Scots. By Susanne Fowler The messages, written while she was imprisoned ...

Gray Harrison is a journalist, critic, and creative writer based in Seattle. She has a Master’s degree in Cultural Reporting and Criticism from NYU. While pursuing an arts journalism career, Gray ...

Back in the 1970s, before neglect of women composers was recognised as an urgent issue (with resultant automatic entry to the Radio 3 playlist), there was at least one fine composer who bucked the ...

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Mary weds Darnley to secure her crown, but her perfect match soon becomes a dangerous mistake. Mary, Queen of Scots, is seeking a marriage to strengthen her claim to the English throne. Her cousin ...

After receiving its world premiere at the Edinburgh International Festival, Mary, Queen of Scots, tours Scotland. As Elizabeth I of England (Charlotta Öfverholm) nears the end of her life, she is ...

"The scene of this picture is laid in the abbey of fotheringhay, the last of the numerous doleful prisons in which this lovely but unfortunate queen was immured, and the prison in which she ended her ...

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 ...

After months decoding mysterious letters, codebreakers realize they may belong to Mary Stuart. After months of working on mysterious encrypted letters, Elizabeth’s codebreakers begin to suspect that ...

In an ever-growing podcast universe, our writers select the shows that stood out. By The New York Times “Mary, Queen of Scots,” a new commission by Scottish Ballet, puts both her historical tale and ...