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Mary Queen Of Scots Research Paper
Mary Queen of Scots Biography
Mary Queen of Scots, kind and caring, was born into royalty and respected by the people who eventually witnessed her execution. Her birth of royalty was attributed to her parental influence of the King and Queen of Scots. “Mary Stuart Was born on December 8, 1542 in Linlithgow Palace, West Lothian, Scotland.”{Editors} Mary never knew her parents but she knew she would always be a queen. “The death of her father, which occurred just days after her birth, put Mary Queen of Scots, on the throne in 1542.”{Editors} Mary felt her sense of royalty since the day she was born. Mary thought that she would always have power over the people. “She made it clear to anybody who would listen that she felt she should be the queen of England.”{Trueman} Mary was greedy, but had the best interest in England.
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Mary did everything she could to reach out to Queen Elizabeth, but the queen wouldn’t let that happen. Bloody Queen's points out, “In nearly three decades of obsession with each other they will never actually meet.” While Mary sat in prison for the next eighteen years, she never met her son James. Mary was hoping her son would negotiate her release, but he never did. Mary not only lost her parents, but she lost having relationships with the only family she had left.
Queen Mary had an outrageous and failed relationship with Lord Darnley. Ever since Mary married her cousin, Henry Stewart, Earl of Darnley she had a stronger claim to the throne. Darnley was an evil man and in front of Mary’s eyes he murdered Mary’s Italian secretary, David Rizzio. Bloody Queen's states that, “Darnley and Scottish lords attack David Rizzio. They drag him away and stab him fifty-six times.” After the horrible murder, Darnley was injured by an explosion, but later was strangled at Kirk O’ Field, near the garden

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