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The Abdication at Lochleven: Mary Signs Away Her Crown, 24 July 1567
She may have just miscarried twins. She was twenty-four years old, and she was still lying in pain in her bed when the lords came for her crown.
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Margaret Tudor's Last Parting from Her Father, Collyweston, 8 July 1503
Margaret Tudor was five years old when they promised her to a king sixteen years her senior. She was thirteen, and newly motherless, when she finally left to marry him. On the eighth of July 1503 she would say goodbye to her father for the last time.
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Mary, Queen of Scots: From Carberry Hill to Lochleven, June 1567
They promised her honour, then locked the Queen of Scotland on an island. She had not abdicated. The boat returned to the mainland without her.
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Mary Stuart: Nineteen Years in England
She crossed into England in a fishing boat at twenty-five and wrote to her cousin asking for help. She would not leave for nineteen years. She would not leave alive.