Mary Queen Of Scots Research Paper

Born into the throne, Mary Queen of Scots was pronounced queen of Scotland at six days old when her father died. In her lifetime, she was the queen of two countries: Scotland and France. Mary spent most of her adult life imprisoned in Lochleven Castle and later escaped and fled to England. She had several husbands and secret lovers that caused problems with her ruling. Having a complicated personal life and being politically immature led to the decapitation of Mary Queen of Scots at the age of 44 on February 8, 1587.
At the age of five, Mary Queen of Scots was sent to France to be protected from the English. When she turned 15 years old she was wed to the 14 year-old Francis II who was destined to be the King of France. Mary's training to become

Mary and Bothwell were defeated and Mary surrendered so that her husband would be safe. Broken spirited Mary was imprisoned in Lochleven Castle where she later lost her twins by Bothwell. While being held captive, she was forced to abdicate the throne to her son. Mary’s husband was later imprisoned in Protestant Denmark and died ten years later. She was now a widow for the third time. After hearing the news about her husband many men risked their lives and died because they tried to rescue Mary from captivity.
Ten months later, Mary managed to escape from the castle. She grew an alliance with some of the people in the castle that smuggled her out. Mary fled to several places before finally deciding to seek help from her cousin Elizabeth in England. Although others advised her to flee to France where she could have got the most help because of her religion, she still followed her own decision and went to England. Showing up unannounced and unwanted in England, Elizabeth did not trust Mary because her previous actions trying to claim Elizabeth’s

When told on February 7th that she would die the following morning, her response was “I thank you for such welcome news. You will do me great good in withdrawing me from this world out of which I am very glad to go” (Pitkin). Mary already considered herself a dead woman because of how she was being held captive unable to do anything without being supervised by Elizabeth’s servants. She felt as if she only had two or three years left of life anyway so that she decided that now was the time for her to go.
Early the next morning, Mary was awakened by servants to prepare for her execution. Because Mary had no sadness or shame, she lifted her pale face with pride as she was escorted to the outdoors. While walking there she realized how many troubles, tribulations, bad marriages and love affairs she had survived (Stepanek 104). Mary’s feelings at this point were:
Her first husband died as a new king, her second husband was murdered as a weak and worthless consort, her third husband had gone insane in prison. Her son had disowned her because of the disastrous decisions she made. There was nothing left of her as queen” (Stepanek 105). Mary’s execution ceremony was announced loudly to the people