Moments before her execution, Mary had one last message to send to the world. Mary was sentenced to death after being found guilty of plotting the assassination of her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I. As ...

"The scene of this picture is laid in the abbey of fotheringhay, the last of the numerous doleful prisons in which this lovely but unfortunate queen was immured, and the prison in which she ended her ...

A special service is to take place in Fotheringhay near Peterborough, followed by flowers being laid at the remains of the ...

Mary, Queen of Scots, was beheaded at Fotheringhay Castle in England on February 8, 1587. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons On February 8, 1587, the executioner’s ax struck three times, beheading ...

A letter written by Mary, Queen of Scots just hours before her execution in 1587 will go on display for the first time in nearly a decade when it forms part of an exhibition in Perth next year. Mary ...