that King James V was married in 1538 to his second wife, Mary of Lorraine, daughter of the Duke de Guise? Only 4 years later the birth of his daughter, Mary Queen of Scots-to-be took place 6 days before his own death.

 that when James V lay dying, and the news of the birth of his daughter, the future Mary, Queen of Scots, hy his Queen, Mary of Guise, was brought to him, he, remembering that Scotland's Crown had descended upon the royal house of Stewart through the marriage of King Robert the Bruce's daughter Marjorie to Walter, the High Steward of Scotland, and perhaps having a premonition of Scotland's future tragic history, murmured: "It cam' wi' a lass, an 'twill gae wi' a lass."?

 that few royal monarchs in history can match this record of Mary, Queen of Scots: upon her return to Scotland at 18 after her childhood and early young womanhood in France, she was welcomed to Edinburgh in 1561 as Queen Dowager of France, Queen of Scotland, and Heir Apparent to the Throne of England?

that although Mary, Queen of Scots was a beautiful woman, and was at first much loved by the Scottish people, she was also foolishly daring and reckless; and when suspicion pointed a stern and accusing finger at her, following the murder of her husband, Henry Stewart, Lord Darnley, and at her remarriage to James Hepburn, Lord Bothwell only three months afterward, their affection turned to disgust and contempt? This, together with the conflagration of the Scottish Reformation, and the uncontrollable jealousy of England's Queen Elizabeth I, caused her downfall.

 that letters and documents preserved for 400 years describe Mary, Queen of Seats as a woman of remarkable 'beauty, and that although it was Catholic Mary's intention to promote freedom of religion in Scotland, the vitriolic exhortations by Protestant Reformer John Knox and his fanatical rabble-rousers made this impossible, as she, herself, was the object of their most virulent attacks?

 that although much of John Knox's hatred of and contempt for the Catholic Church was directed personally to Mary Queen of Scots, in 1564, at the age of 59, Knox took as his second wife, 17-year-old Margaret Stewart, daughter of Lord Ochiltree, a distant cousin of the Queen?

 that when Mary found it necessary to flee Scotland, and sought refuge in England from her own cousin, Queen Elizabeth, Elizabeth ordered her intercepted and imprisoned, refusing to see her on any condition?

 that Mary was incarcerated by Elizabeth's orders in one after another of the most run-down, dank, dismal castles in England, where most of the winters she spent in her bed in order to keep warm?
 

 that after 18 years imprisonment, when Mary, Queen of Scots at the age of 44, was finally read her death warrant and informed that her execution would take place the following morning, February 8, 1587 at eight of the clock, her request that she be permitted to see her Catholic Confessor, who had not been admitted to her presence for some time, was refused? She in turn, refused the admonition and consolation offered her by the Protestant Dean of Peterborough, choosing to die as she had lived, staunch in her Roman Catholic faith.

 that her enemies as well as her friends who were present at her execution, attest to the fact that Mary, Queen of Scots went to her death with the courage and dignity of the Queen that she was?

 that Queen Elizabeth I refused Mary, Queen of Scots' last request that she be given burial in France in Catholic-consecrated ground beside her Mother, the late Queen Mary of Guise, but ordered her interred with great pomp and pageantry in the Protestant Episcopal Cathedral of Peterborough? A belated 25 years later, her son, King James VI, who, educated by Queen Elizabeth as a Protestant, had neither protested against, nor attempted to prevent, the harsh 18-years' imprisonment and ignominious death of his Mother, had her remains re-interred in the Henry VII Chapel in Westminster Abbey.