According to The Scotsman:
Mary will be revealed through documents, artefacts and letters, from her first note…to her final missive on the morning of her execution, asking that her servants be paid. There’s her prized Jesus crown thorn relic, an ivory and mother-of-pearl crossbow, and…an astrolabe like the ones mariners used to cross the Atlantic in their quests for Eldorado.
“The Scots nobility were well aware of European fashions – Mary wouldn’t have been married to the Dauphin if Scotland had been a barbaric country of savages. It had a substantial dynastic importance, sitting between competing power blocks, and punched above its weight,”
• Mary, Queen of Scots, National Museums Scotland, Chambers Street, Edinburgh, exhibits Friday to 17 November…
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Mary Queen of Scots
