Jennifer Morag Henderson

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The enduring fascination of Mary Queen of Scots

FROM the start it was clear that the dynamic of the new Mary Queen of Scots film would have one focus. From the poster, featuring lead actresses Saoirse Ronan and Margot Robbie, to the first trailers, featuring a fiery meeting between Mary and Elizabeth of England, it was evident that the clash between the Scots queen and the queen of England was going to be a major theme. Director Josie Rourke has said in interviews that the image of a face-to-face meeting between the two women was the whole pitch for the film. The only problem is that, in real life, Mary Queen of Scots and Elizabeth Tudor never met.

How God gave a small Scottish town advance notice of the Gunpowder Plot

ON November 5,1605 Guy Fawkes was arrested in London after he was discovered carrying matches, next to 36 barrels of gunpowder, in the cellars underneath the Parliament – but when the news from England filtered up to the far north of Scotland, the people of Dornoch believed they had received advance warning of the plot, sent directly to them from God.