Mary Stuart was born at Linlithgow Palace in 1542. She was part of the House of Stuart, who came into power through bloodlines to the House of Bruce. Both houses of Bruce and Stuart are of Norman origin. Mary actually spoke French and French was also spoken by the royalty of Scotland and England thanks to the Norman invasion of 1066. She married Lord Darnley who was also a relative, a half cousin. She had one of her advisors murdered, David Rizzio, an Italian, by Darnley and some of his followers. What followed was a very secretive and intriguing real-life murder mystery, involving the murder of her husband, Darnley, in a payback to the murder of Rizzio, who was also rumoured to be the father of her child, who was the eventual king of Scotland and England, Ireland and Wales, James I and VI. She was eventually executed due to this partaking in this murder conspiracy.
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