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Mary, Queen of Scots being led to execution NPG D13135

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by William Luson Thomas, published by Illustrated London News, after Scipione Vannutelli

Following the defeat of her forces at Langside in 1568, Mary fled to England to seek the protection of Elizabeth I. This disastrous decision led to her imprisonment for eighteen years in a series of English Castles. As a focus for Catholic rebellion in England, with a claim to the English throne, she eventually became too great a threat for Elizabeth to tolerate. After a trial at Fotheringhay Castle she was executed on 8 February 1587. Although found guilty of complicity in plots to assassinate... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.