Mary Queen of Scots

Linlithgow Palace has been closed since early last year after issues were detected with the safety of masonry at former pleasure palace of the Stuart monarchs. It will now re-open to the public on Saturday. PIC: HES.

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Malcolm Lochhead with his November 1990 Keeping Glasgow in Stitches banner

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Red spraypaint was used to deface the top of the James V fountain, which sits in the central courtyard of the palace. PIC: HES.

Linlithgow Palace sprayed with red graffiti in 'wanton' attack by vandals

More than 50 previously undiscovered letters written by Mary Queen of Scots have been deciphered by a team of codebreakers with the secret correspondece detailing her struggles in captivity. PIC: Contributed.

'Lost' letters written by Mary Queen of Scots deciphered by codebreakers

Letters written by Mary Queen of Scots while she was in captivity have been found and decoded - more than 430 years after the former Queen of Scotland wrote them.

Mary Queen of Scots secret letters decoded after 430 years

Dots Obsession by Yayoi Kusama, part of the Flesh Arranges Itself Differently show at the Hunterian PIC: John Devlin / The Scotsman

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According to the historian Robert Stedall, the Queen is related to Mary Queen of Scots via Henry VII's sister Queen Margaret of Scotland.

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Myres Castle is up for sale with a price tag of £3.5m

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Nicola Sturgeon, John Swinney and their Cabinet colleagues seem only to offer ineptitude and empty promises (Picture: Jane Barlow/PA)

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Dr Anna Groundwater, principal Curator at the the National Museum Scotland, with a rare French silver casket believed to have belonged to Mary Queen of Scots. Picture: Stewart Attwood

Silver casket linked to downfall of Mary Queen of Scots secured for the nation

Lily, Maria, Poppy and Lucy from Blackwood Primary School test out a new bridge at Loch Wood during the official opening event. Picture: Ian Georgeson

Woodland with links to Robert Burns and Mary Queen of Scots reopens

Saoirse Ronan as Mary Stuart in a scene from the film Mary Queen of Scots (Picture: Liam Daniel/Focus Features via AP)

Mary Queen of Scots used textiles to convey political messages – Laura Waddell

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The letter, which features the handwriting of Mary Queen of Scots.

'Rare' letter written by Mary Queen of Scots sells for £32,500 at auction

Cathy Marsden of Lyon & Turnbull with a letter featuring the handwriting of Mary Queen of Scots that is being sold by the auction house next month. Photo: Stewart Attwood/Lyon & Turnbull/PA Wire

Letter written by Mary Queen of Scots to French ambassador up for sale

Beth Malcolm PIC: Graeme Rogers

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Dennis the Menace and Mary Queen of Scots paid a visit with eight-year-old Rocco Cesari and five-year-old Francesca Cesari to Luke Winter of the Story Wagon – a touring space offering creative writing, traditional storytelling and story sharing activities – at The Kelpies in Falkirk to launch Scotland's Year of Stories. Picture: VisitScotland/Chris Watt

Centuries of Scottish stories to be showcased in year-long culture celebration

The piece of embroidered bed curtain said to have been stitched by Mary Queen of Scots. PIC: Contributed.

Piece of embroidery 'stitched by Mary Queen of Scots' comes up at auction

Parts of Winton Castle near Edinburgh date to the 15th Century with a Renaissance-style palace later created. PIC: Al James/CC

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Queen of Scotland and of France, in mourning dress, from painting by François Clouet, 16th century (Photo: Gianni Dagli Orti/Shutterstock).

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Brucefield owner Victoria Bruce-Winkler, a biologist who inherited the property from her mother in 2012, is passionate about regenerating the estate for a new generation

Scottish estate with links to Mary Queen of Scots opens for sleepovers

A 17th Century iron collar from Fife used as an instrument of torture on those accused of witchcraft. It has been used to illustrate the case of a woman accused of being a lesbian, with the authorities later treating her as a witch.PIC: NMS.

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Over its 30-year lifespan Kype Muir wind farm is expected to pay out more than £100 million in community benefits while generating up to 155 megawatts of electricity each year – enough to power more than 110,000 homes or a city the size of Aberdeen

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Bloody Mary

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The carving shows a much smaller figure complete with gash wound and hanging entrails and is believed to be the assasin of the abbot. PIC: HES.

13th Century carving records 'abbot's assassination' at Scottish abbey

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex reportedly refused the Earl of Dumbarton title for Archie (Getty Images/Shutterstock)

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St Margaret

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Edinburgh Castle

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The palace courtyard at Edinburgh Castle

Mystery of the child's bones hidden in Edinburgh Castle walls – Part 2

Guy Fawkes effigies are traditionally lit on Bonfire Night to celebrate the foiled Gunpowder Plot (Shutterstock)

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The Old Ancrum Bridge was found beneath the River Teviot and is now known to date to the 14th Century.

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Picture: Savills

'Haunted' Scottish castle with links to Robert the Bruce still for sale

The Climate Change Tree - nominated by Chris Knapman - is a remarkable sycamore situated at Gartmorn Dam, near Alloa, within a post-industrial landscape.

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The prayer book gifted to Mary Queen of Scots is expected to fetch between £250,000 - £300,000 when it goes up for auction in July. PIC: Christie's Images Ltd 2020.

Mary Queen of Scots' prayer book goes up for auction

Mary of Guise, portrayed at Linlithgow Museum, spoke in her native French to Scots and English nobles so both could understand her as they would have struggled to communicate using Scots and English (Picture: Graham Hamilton)

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