Marie de Guise ruled Scotland alone after the death of her husband James V. Shefoiled Henry Tudor of Englands plans to marry her baby daughter to his sonEdward ... » 

Marie de Guise ruled Scotland alone after the death of her husband James V. Shefoiled Henry Tudor of Englands plans to marry her baby daughter to his sonEdward and unite the two thrones under English rule by sending Mary to France.And she kept the peace between Protestants and Catholics while John Knox wasbecoming a fiery power in the land. Beautiful lively and clever Mary Queen ofScots was welcomed back to the country of her birth after her mother died. Buther troubles mounted with her disastrous marriages to Lord Darnley and to LordBothwell after Darnleys murder. In spite of numerous plots against her andeven after her little son James was crowned king while she still reigned shealways believed that Elizabeth of England would help her. Trustingly she setoff for England and her tragic fate. «