One of the most captivating Tudor figures is Mary Queen of Scots, the Stuart monarch of Scotland who was forced off the throne in favour of her son James. She would try to take refuge in England as she feared for her life in her homeland, and she would then be held as a prisoner of her cousin Elizabeth I, the English Queen. Elizabeth would imprison Mary for almost 2 decades, and Mary would agree to take part in a number of plots to try to oust Elizabeth from the throne. But this caught up with the former Scottish monarch, who was then accused of treason and was found guilty inside the walls of Fotheringhay Castle, the very fortification which would be the place where she lost her head. But Mary’s love life was characterised by a number of tragic and terrible husbands, and her third and final husband was James Hepburn, the 4th Earl of Bothwell. He was a man who was at the centre of scandal, and was accused of being the man behind the murder of Mary’s second husband. But Bothwell met a rather brutal end inside of a castle in Denmark, and his remains were disturbed a number of times over the years.
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