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Mary (QUEEN OF SCOTS MARY STUART)

QUEEN OF SCOTS (MARY STUART), only daughter of James V. of Scotland and Mary of Guise; born in Linlithgow, in Linlithgow, Scotland, Dec. 8, 1542. in a few days after her her birth, the after her birth, the Parliament made Arran-head of the great house of Hamilton , and heir-presumptive to the throne regent of the kingdom.

Mary was crowned Queen of Scotland, The young queen's betrothal to the Dauphin, son of Henry II., led to Mary's visit to France in 1548, where George Buchanan taught her Latin, and Ronsard, poetry. The marriage of the Dauphin with Mary took place in 1558. On the death of Henry II., and her husband's accession to the throne as Francis II., Mary became Queen of France, a position which lasted not quite ber, 1560. Mary now coldly treated in country. In Scotland, at this time, the France resolved to return to her native Roman Catholic party had been overthrown. of national importance, she finally made Mary's marriage becoming an object choice of her cousin, Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, a handsome, accomplished, dis- On July 20, 1565, Darnley was created Duke of Albany, and nine days after the marriage was solemnized; Darnley being created, also, king-consort on the day preceding. Her half-brother,