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Mary of Guise and Her Son François: A Childhood Followed by Letter
Her son's clothes no longer fitted him. His grandmother wrote to tell her. She had gone to Scotland to marry a king. Her little boy had stayed in France.
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The Treaty of Haddington, 7 July 1548: Scotland Promises Its Five-Year-Old Queen to France
Henry VIII had given her a "Rough Wooing" since she was barely old enough to walk. His son continued it. On the seventh of July 1548, Scotland promised its five year old queen to France. She was some seventy miles away and did not know it was happening.
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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.