Quotes About Mary

A look I shall never forget, because it was almost one of hatred, and hatred in her face was like spite in the Virgen Mary's; it reversed the entire order of nature.

Maitland had opened the bidding. He proposed that Mary be allowed to marry the husband of her choice

Cecil, who had always opposed a settlement with Mary

Mary's claim to the English throne as the great-granddaughter of Henry VII

ENGLISH POLICY toward Mary was beginning to fall apart. Elizabeth was losing her nerve.

said that Mary "had done an extraordinary and unexampled thing on the night of the murder

As Mary left Kirk o'Field, she passed the entrance of her own bedroom.

where Scotland and Mary Queen of Scots were concerned

Mary arrived at Inverness only to find that the captain of the castle

How did so versatile a queen as Mary, one so beautiful and intelligent, so convivial and down-to-earth

Mary was a Catholic, and Cecil's overriding ambition was to remold the whole of the British Isles

Mary was forewarned. When she reached the river crossing, she had three thousand men

Up to now, Mary's own impresa, chosen while she was in France

On January 3, 1567, Mary wrote to say that she accepted the offer

Mary never saw Bothwell again.

Mary alone insisted on wearing a white gown.

meaning that Mary's dynastic claim had at all costs to be discounted.

The explosion woke Mary, who sent Bothwell and the captain of the guard to investigate.

Such insults stunned Mary.

The magnificent jewels Henry II had showered on her were reassigned to Mary

he had no desire whatever to marry Mary and live in Scotland.

Asked point-blank about Mary's opinion of him, Melville dissembled.

Mary Tudor, the English queen, fell mortally ill at the age of forty-two.

Mary Tudor died on November 17, 1558