Mary Queen of Scots’ last letter – a precious piece of Scottish history and a modern piece of scientific data research
Hours before her execution on February 8 1587, Mary Queen of Scots wrote a letter to her former brother-in-law Henry III, the King of France.
“Having by God’s will, for my sins I think, thrown myself into the power of the Queen my cousin, at whose hands I have suffered much for almost twenty years, I have finally been condemned to death by her and her Estates,†wrote the ill-fated Queen.
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