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  • The Casket Letters (Mary Queen of Scots) - On This Day in History

    06/21/2022 6:44:23 PM PDT · by texas booster · 41 replies
    The Tudor Society ^ | June 20 | Claire Ridgway
    On 20th June 1567, a few days after Scottish rebels apprehended Mary, Queen of Scots, servants of James Douglas, 4th Earl of Morton, allegedly found a silver casket of eight letters, two marriage contracts (which apparently proved that Mary had agreed to marry Bothwell before his divorce) and twelve sonnets. The casket was found in the possession of James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell and third husband of Mary, Queen of Scots. What was important about these letters? Well, the eight letters found in the casket were allegedly written by Mary to Bothwell and one was said to implicate the...
  • Mary, Queen of Scots, was 'adulteress, liar and murderer'

    03/23/2018 9:26:58 AM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 84 replies
    InticWeb ^ | February 8, 2018 | unattributed
    Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, was a lying adulteress who plotted with her lover to murder her husband, an intriguing new study claims. The analysis by Lesley Smith, a medical historian, claims that Mary lied about being raped to explain her pregnancy and justify her third marriage after her second husband, Lord Darnley, was strangled in Edinburgh... Her beauty and sexual attractiveness -- at 5ft 11in, Mary was about a foot taller than the average woman -- gave her cousin Elizabeth I all the more reason to eventually execute her for treason in 1587, Ms Smith said. "All in all,...