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On 29th October 1586 the English Parliament met to discuss Mary Queen of Scot’s fate after she was found guilty of plotting to have Elizabeth I murdered… #Elizabethan #MaryQueenofScots #ScottishHistory #RoyalHistory #ScottishMonarchy #WomenInHistory #MaryStuart#ElizabethI #OTD #Scotland
October 29, 2025 at 7:23 AM Everybody can reply
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#OTD
29th October 1586
4 days after Mary, Queen of Scots was found guilty of conspiring to assassinate Queen Elizabeth I, Parliament met to discuss her fate.

#MaryQueenofScots #QueenElizabethI #Stuarts #Tudors #History
October 29, 2025 at 4:51 AM Everybody can reply
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Biopic: A Podcast Story presents Episode 71: The Execution of Mary Stuart. It’s our oldest film so far and we may have asked too much from 1895. #movies #biopic #maryqueenofscots Download here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
October 25, 2025 at 5:15 PM Everybody can reply
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#OTD 14 Oct 1586

#MaryQueenofScots trial began at Fotheringhay Castle

Intending to boycott it she relented, #WilliamCecil said it would go ahead with or without her

Listening as #ElizabethI's Court put their case, was she
oblivious to her fate?

Herstory youtube.com/playlist?lis...

#Elizabethan
October 14, 2025 at 5:27 AM Everybody can reply
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👑 #OTD in #History 14 October 1586, #MaryQueenOfScots went on trial for conspiracy against Queen #ElizabethI of England at Fotheringhay Castle in Northamptonshire.

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October 14, 2025 at 4:05 AM Everybody can reply
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#OTD 8 Oct 1515

#LadyMargaretDouglas was born to #MargaretTudor & #ArchibaldDouglas

She fell out of Uncle #HenryVIII's favour by a secret betrothal & affair with a Howard

Her marriage to #MatthewStewart produced #HenryStuart husband to #MaryQueenofScots so Grandmother to #JamesVIandI
October 8, 2025 at 5:30 AM Everybody can reply
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#OTD 29 Sept 1564

#RobertDudley became Earl of Leicester

#ElizabethI had a cunning plan, a title made him more worthy as a suitor for #MaryQueenofScots tho neither were keen!

An attempt to control Mary, instead she married her cousin #HenryStuart #LordDarnley which didn't end well

#Elizabethan
September 29, 2025 at 7:12 AM Everybody can reply
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#OTD 26 Sept 1588

Sir Amias Paulet died in London buried in St Martin-in-the-Fields, Westminster (later moved to Hinton St George)
A diplomat & Governor of Jersey, he served #ElizabethI as ambassador in France & Privy Councillor but most famed as #maryqueenofscots harsh gaoler
#Elizabethan #History
September 26, 2025 at 5:28 AM Everybody can reply
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#OTD
25th September 1586
Mary, Queen of Scots was moved to Fotheringhay Castle.
Also on this day, Queen Elizabeth I agreed to the appointment of 36 commissioners to act as judges for Mary’s trial.

#MaryStuart #MaryQueenofScots #QueenElizabethI #Stuarts #Tudors #History
September 25, 2025 at 6:00 AM Everybody can reply
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#OTD 25 Sep 1586

#MaryQueenofScots was moved to Fotheringhay Castle The same day #ElizabethI agreed the names of 36 commissioners as trial judges

Mary's fate was sealed 2 months earlier replying to Babington's letters agreeing to his plot against her aides' advice

#Elizabethan #Tudor #History
September 25, 2025 at 5:31 AM Everybody can reply
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The wonderful documentary of my friends George, Norbert and Satoshi’s discovery and decipherment of #MaryQueenofScots lost letters.

Beautifully crafted by writer and director Augustin Viatte.

On @artefr.bsky.social online now and on TV 🇫🇷🇩🇪 27 September.👇

#earlymodern #history
September 22, 2025 at 9:32 PM Everybody can reply
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#OTD 11 Sep 1561

#MaryQueenofScots began her 1st progress having returned to Scotland in August

An extensive 18day tour her itinerary included amongst others Edinburgh & Stirling Castles Falkland Palace Kincardine, Holyrood & Linlithgow Palaces @lovescotland.bsky.social @visit-scotland.bsky.social
September 11, 2025 at 9:00 AM Everybody can reply
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#OTD
11th September 1561
Mary, Queen of Scots began her first royal progress around Scotland.

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#MaryQueenOfScots #QueenofScots #Stewarts #Stuarts #Scotland #History
September 11, 2025 at 5:34 AM Everybody can reply
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In Women who Rules the World: 5000 Years of Female Monarchy I explore depictions of Athaliah, a rare Old Testament reigning Queen, looking at the way in which she was used to justify the execution of Mary Queen of Scots
#womenwhoruledtheworld @wearefootnote.bsky.social #maryqueenofscots
September 10, 2025 at 11:33 AM Everybody can reply
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👑 On this day in 1543: Mary Stuart, at nine months old, is crowned "Queen of Scots" in the central Scottish town of Stirling.

🖼️ Image by François Clouet. 

#MaryQueenOfScots #OnThisDay #TodayInHistory
September 9, 2025 at 9:01 PM Everybody can reply
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#OTD 9 Sept 1543

#MaryQueenofScots was crowned at Stirling Castle, the 30th anniversary of grandfather #JamesIV death

Just 6days old when her father #JamesV died

Regents ruled Scotland until she returned at 18

@visit-scotland.bsky.social
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September 9, 2025 at 8:27 AM Everybody can reply
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#OTD
9th September 1543
The infant Mary Stewart (Stuart) aged nine months, was crowned Queen of Scots in the Chapel Royal of Stirling Castle.

#MaryQueenofScots #QueenofScots #Scotland #Stewarts #Stuarts #History
September 9, 2025 at 4:43 AM Everybody can reply
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#OTD
6th September 1561
James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell becomes a member of Mary Queen of Scots’ Privy Council.

#JamesHepburn #EarlofBothwell #PrivyCouncillor #MaryQueenofScots #Stuarts #Scotland #History
September 6, 2025 at 3:36 AM Everybody can reply
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#theotherqueen by #philippagregory is about the last few years of #maryqueenofscots

I found Mary and George to be very unlikeable. I did appreciate Bess.

This just didn’t grab my attention like her other books. 💙📚

#bookreview
September 1, 2025 at 9:51 AM Everybody can reply
Allison L. Steenson on the significance of the texts attributed to William Fowler in the Hawthornden manuscripts in relation to the reshaping of the image of Mary, Queen of Scots, after the Union of the Crowns:
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#MaryQueenofScots
#UnionoftheCrowns
#HawthorndenManuscripts
A quote from Scottish Literary Review, Spring/Summer 2025
In its fragmentary and miscellaneous way, the Hawthornden manuscripts provide information about the re-shaping of a British Marian myth after 1603, a com...
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August 30, 2025 at 5:11 AM Everybody can reply
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#TudorTuesday
Queen Elizabeth I's instructions for Sir Nicholas Throckmorton
Windsor Castle
27th July 1567

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#Letter #SirNicholasThrockmorton #MaryQueenofScots #QueenElizabethI #Tudors #Stuarts #History
August 26, 2025 at 4:30 AM Everybody can reply
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