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West Lothian/Linlithgowshire (Linlithgow, Livingston, Bo'ness, Broxburn,
Whitburn, Armadale, Bathgate)
Mary became Queen of Scots
Born at Linlithgow Palace, West Lothian on 8 December 1542, Mary
became Queen of Scots when she was six days old. Her claims to the
throne of England were almost as strong as her claims to the
Scottish throne. As Henry VII of England's great-granddaughter, Mary
was next in line to the English throne, after Henry VIII's children.
Given her youth and sex, the Scottish nobility decided that they
must make peace with England, and they agreed that she should marry
Henry VIII's son, the future Edward VI.
No sooner had the treaty been arranged, however, than Catholics
opposed to the plan took the young Mary to Stirling Castle and, to
Henry's fury, they broke the match, preferring to return to
Scotland's traditional alliance with France.
Henry thereupon ordered the savage series of raids into Scotland
known as 'The Rough Wooing'. His army set fire to the Abbey of
Holyroodhouse where James V was buried, burned crops in the Tweed
Valley and set ablaze the Border abbeys of Melrose, Jedburgh and
Dryburgh.
Undeterred, the Scots in 1548 betrothed Mary to the French King
Henri II's heir, the Dauphin Francis, and sent her to be brought up
at the French Court. It is said that the spelling of the royal
family name of Stewart changed to Stuart at that time, to suit
French conventional spelling.
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