Marie de Guise ruled Scotland alone after the death of her husband James V.
She foiled Henry Tudor of England's plans to marry her baby daughter to his
son Edward and unite the two thrones under English rule by sending Mary to
France. She kept the peace between Protestants and Catholics while John
Knox was becoming a fiery power in the land.

Beautiful, lively and clever, Mary Queen of Scots was welcomed back to the
country of her birth after her mother died. But her troubles mounted with her
disastrous marriages to Lord Darnley and to Lord Bothwell after Darnley's
murder. In spite of numerous plots against her, and even after her little son
James was crowned king, she always believed that Elizabeth of England
would help her. Trustingly, she set off for England - and her tragic fate.