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Quotes About Mary Queen

Oh sleep! it is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole! To Mary Queen the praise be given! She sent the gentle sleep from Heaven, That slid into my soul.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Mary Queen of Scots is the most 'normal' girl who became a queen that I have ever written about.
~ Kathryn Lasky
Vigenère's work culminated in his Traicté des Chiffres ("A Treatise on Secret Writing"), published in 1586. Ironically, this was the same year that Thomas Phelippes was breaking the cipher of Mary Queen of Scots. If only Mary's secretary had read this treatise, he would have known about the Vigenère cipher, Mary's messages to Babington would have baffled Phelippes, and her life might have been spared.
~ Simon Singh
Mary Queen of Scots was my first love, and that is always something special.
~ Antonia Fraser