Category: Mary Queen of Scots

Chatsworth, an Artful Estate in Central England

Chatsworth, located in central England, comprises gardens and woodlands, pavilions and bold water features, and holds a stately Baroque mansion. The mansion was built in 1552 by Sir William Cavendish with the driving force of his wife, Bess of Hardwick, who at the time was the second most powerful woman in Elizabethan England, after the…


UK Police Arrest Man Over Theft of Mary Queen of Scots’s Rosary Beads

LONDON—British police arrested a man on Tuesday in connection with the theft of gold rosary beads carried by Mary Queen of Scots to her execution in 1587, among items worth more than £1 million ($1.37 million) stolen from a castle in the south of England. Mary, a Roman Catholic, was ousted from the Scottish throne…