Of the two historical films opening this week, this is the one with grand, epic drama. Saoirse Ronan and Margot Robbie play dueling queens in director Josie Rourke’s searing MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS, a ...

'Mary Queen of Scots' and 'The Favourite' see women grappling for power, with the costume designers aiming to convey royal rivalry onscreen through fashion. By Lindsay Weinberg The year’s top two ...

That Mary Queen of Scots and Queen Elizabeth I of England were in power at the same time is somewhat remarkable. But despite technically being in charge, both Mary and Elizabeth were surrounded by men ...

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, ...

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Is there room for two queens on a single island? In a single movie? The answers, according to “Mary Queen of Scots,” are “not quite” and “almost.” The monarchs in question are Mary, played by Saoirse ...

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 ...

Researchers have cracked the code used to write a collection of "lost" letters once owned by Mary, Queen of Scots. Penned between 1578 and 1584 with a "sophisticated cipher system" that involved a mix ...

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 ...

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 ...

Over 50 encrypted letters written by Mary, Queen of Scots, have been deciphered, revealing the ill-fated monarch’s meditations on a wide variety of subjects. A team of international code-breakers ...

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 ...