On Feb. 8, 1587, Mary Queen of Scots was beheaded, charged with conspiring to kill England's Queen Elizabeth I.

With his lament, Burns cemented Mary’s status as a tragic figure ripe for romantic literary representation. Burns’ work inspired the romantic poet William Wordsworth to write three poems about the ...

Mary wrote a letter to her brother-in-law, Henry III, in her prison cell at Fotheringhay Castle hours before her execution in ...

“Mary, Queen of Scots,” a new commission by Scottish Ballet, puts both her historical tale and contemporary views in motion. By Roslyn Sulcas Anna Groundwater, a curator at National Museums Scotland, ...

Musgrave focuses on Mary’s return to Scotland in 1561 and the events leading to her abdication in 1567. It is Mary’s relationship with various men that leads the narrative; her half-brother James who ...

On the 25th of January each year, Scots celebrate the life of Robert Burns with good food and recitations of his poetry ...

After months decoding mysterious letters, codebreakers realize they may belong to Mary Stuart. After months of working on mysterious encrypted letters, Elizabeth’s codebreakers begin to suspect that ...

"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 ...

Gray Harrison is a journalist, critic, and creative writer based in Seattle. She has a Master’s degree in Cultural Reporting and Criticism from NYU. While pursuing an arts journalism career, Gray ...

2025 sees the upgraded version of Mary, Queen of Rock! at the Fringe. You think you know the story of Mary, Queen of Scots? Think again... The year is 1561. The Scottish Reformation has enforced an ...