The Secret Letters of Mary Queen of Scots is a Lion TV and Gedeon Programmes production for BBC Scotland, BBC Two and BBC iPlayer.

Mary, Queen of Scots (1578, detail), painted by Peter Oudry - Mila Tomisch Lochleven Castle is today a ruin, visited by tourists, but in the 16th century, for 11 months, it was the prison of Mary, ...

An international team of codebreakers said Wednesday they have found and deciphered the long-lost secret letters of 16th-century monarch Mary, Queen of Scots, one of the most argued-over figures in ...

Mary, Queen of Scots was beheaded for treason in the Great Hall of Fotheringhay Castle in England by order of her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I, on this day in history, Feb. 8, 1587. The Queen of Scotland ...

Making its ENO premiere, this critically acclaimed modern opera set 500 years ago tells the story that still resonates today. With hostile forces on every side, Mary I of Scotland attempts to secure a ...

In the dead of night on Feb. 8, 1587, Mary Queen of Scots wrote to France’s King Henri III, brother of her first husband: “Tonight, after dinner, I have been advised of my sentence: I am to be ...

The theft of the gold rosary that Mary, Queen of Scots took to her execution is a “very tragic loss” for Catholic history, a curator has said. Jan Graffius, the curator of the Stonyhurst Collections, ...

MANY dramatists have dealt with the story of Mary Queen of Scots, but only Shakespeare could have done it justice. A Greek would have had to make three tragedies out of the three conflicts: (1) ...

Anna Groundwater, a curator at National Museums Scotland, talked about the particular appeal of pieces related to Mary, Queen of Scots. By Susanne Fowler The messages, written while she was imprisoned ...