On Feb. 8, 1587, Mary Queen of Scots was beheaded, charged with conspiring to kill England's Queen Elizabeth I.

The 56th annual Alma Highland Festival and Games is just a month away but first there must be royalty chosen to reign over the event. The 2025 Queen of Scots and Wee Queen will be selected at 7 p.m.

Back in the 1970s, before neglect of women composers was recognised as an urgent issue (with resultant automatic entry to the Radio 3 playlist), there was at least one fine composer who bucked the ...

Gray Harrison is a journalist, critic, and creative writer based in Seattle. She has a Master’s degree in Cultural Reporting and Criticism from NYU. While pursuing an arts journalism career, Gray ...

After months decoding mysterious letters, codebreakers realize they may belong to Mary Stuart. After months of working on mysterious encrypted letters, Elizabeth’s codebreakers begin to suspect that ...

Arguably the most famous Scottish royal, Mary, Queen of Scots left her mark in history. Born in 1542 and queen of Scotland ...

Mary weds Darnley to secure her crown, but her perfect match soon becomes a dangerous mistake. Mary, Queen of Scots, is seeking a marriage to strengthen her claim to the English throne. Her cousin ...

"The scene of this picture is laid in the abbey of fotheringhay, the last of the numerous doleful prisons in which this lovely but unfortunate queen was immured, and the prison in which she ended her ...

Musgrave focuses on Mary’s return to Scotland in 1561 and the events leading to her abdication in 1567. It is Mary’s relationship with various men that leads the narrative; her half-brother James who ...

“Mary, Queen of Scots,” a new commission by Scottish Ballet, puts both her historical tale and contemporary views in motion. By Roslyn Sulcas Anna Groundwater, a curator at National Museums Scotland, ...