Mary was Queen of Scotland about 400 hundred years ago, and was one of the most tragic queens in British history. Born in 1542, her parents were Mary of Guise a french noblewoman and James V of Scotland. She never saw her father as he died when she was just six days old. Mary became queen when she was less than a year old and for her own safety was sent to France at the age of six. First Marriage: Ten years later she married Francis, son of Henry II, king of France, however Francis died two years into their marriage. Second Marriage: In 1565 Mary married her cousin Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, an English nobleman. The bridegroom was proclaimed Henry, King of Scots. Their only child was to become James 1 of England. Mary soon became disenchanted with Henry, he had become overbearing, arrogant and carried away by his new title. He made enemies of some of the powerful nobles and, because of that enmity, there was a plot to kill him. Some thought that Mary had knowledge of the plot. Henry, along with his servant, was found strangled to death after the gunpowder blast intended to take his life failed. Third Marriage: The rift between Mary and her husband became public knowledge. She turned to a Scottish nobleman, a very powerful man, the Earl of Bothwell, for support. He and other Scottish noblemen proposed to do whatever they could to help the queen in her dilemma. This decision led to a failed explosion plot and to the strangulation death of Darnely. A few months later, Mary and the Earl married . This angered the populace who suspected Bothwell's participation in the murder of their King. Mary's subjects were outraged and turned against her. She fled to England to ask for help from her cousin Queen Elizabeth I. Instead , she was imprisoned. After 19 years of trying to obtain her freedom, she was charged and found guilty of taking part in a plot to kill Elizabeth. Mary was beheaded at Fortheringhay Castle in 1587. She was 44 years old. http://home.earthlink.net --

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