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Cecil, who had always opposed a settlement with Mary

urging him to assist the lords in their campaign to expel the French permanently from Scotland.

This, said Moray, who was himself in Fife and saw none of the events he so boldly claimed to be describing

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

into a single Protestant community. He had little room for an independent Scotland

liberty" and "freedom" here meant merely the dislodgement of the Guises by the English:

dearest sister," subject to a judicial examination of Henry VIII's will.

shows her in her borrowed clothes, determined to keep her dignity

he was very lusty, beardless and lady-faced.

One of the accounts of her execution dismissed her as "transcending the skills of the most accomplished actress.

Francis and Mary were to admit that Elizabeth's role in the whole affair had all along been that of an impartial umpire

he exchanged it for the Hermitage, a vast and isolated border citadel in the valley of the Hermitage

Mary was not even English, so how could she be accountable to the queen of England or to English judges?

By Christmas 1568, Mary had not been found innocent, but neither had she been convicted.

and one of the executioners took the medallion from around her neck

No sooner had Moray received a transcript of this confession than poor Paris was silenced forever.

that if one of the executioners had not moved them, they would have been cut off.

her forced abdication and execution, the business on that day was regicide.

and arranged for her to have her own household, they had run a calculated risk.

Elizabeth's practice to draw hatch marks in pen across the blank spaces of her sensitive and important letters

Mary was not blamed by Elizabeth for causing this, the most serious rebellion of her reign—at least not yet.

the grounds that such action might become a precedent for noble forfeitures generally.

her own priority was Elizabeth's latest offer of a final dynastic accord.

With Mary crowned queen, her mother could afford some fun and dalliance.