Mary, Queen of Scots

Mary, Queen of Scots (1542-1587) was queen of Scotland beginning at the age of six, after the death of her father James V, and the great-niece of Henry VIII of England. Her life was marked by the political turmoil of 16th European royalty, religious clashes between Protestantism and Catholicism.
By 1567, an armed revolt by Scots lords forced her abdication. She sought refuge in England with Elizabeth, who viewed her as a threat to the throne, held her captive, and eventually executed her. Her life inspired fiction (including novels by Walter Scott and Alexandre Dumas), operas, and plays. She has been portrayed on screen by the likes of Katharine Hepburn and Saoirse Ronan.
 
==References==
*In the 1973 special Julie on Sesame Street, when Ernie and Bert try to place the name of their celebrity visitor, Julie Andrews. Ernie heads in the right direction ("I saw her in the movie with the umbrella, over the rooftop... Mary, Mary..."). However, Bert specifying "English girl" leads to Mary, Queen of Scots (1971, with Vanessa Redgrave as Her Majesty).
*Count von Count makes many deliberately wrong guesses during a game of "Guess Who?" in Sesame Street Episode 0899, with one of them being Mary, Queen of Scots.
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