Mary Stuart was educated in France from age five, learning languages, instruments, and skills like horsemanship and needlework. She returned to Scotland at age 19 after it had become Protestant, to assume her role as Queen of various lands due to her lineage. Her marriage to her cousin Darnley caused controversy and led to her imprisonment and eventual execution under the order of her cousin Queen Elizabeth I, who viewed Mary as a threat.

1. Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots By Christian Erben

2. Education

3. When Mary was five years old, she was sent to France to be educated.

4. Mary was taught Latin, Italian, Spanish, and some Greek.

5. Mary learned how to play two instruments and learned prose, poetry, horsemanship, falconry, and needlework.

6. Professional Life

8. Mary returned to Scotland because her cousin, James Stuart, asked her to.FRANCE SCOTLAND

9. When she was only sixteen, Mary was queen of England, Ireland, Scotland, and France. This was because of her Tudor blood, and her current husband, Francis. Wow…. This is a lot to rule! Ireland England Scotland France MARY

10. It was Mary's second marriage in July 1565 to her cousin Henry Stuart, earl of Darnley, son of Matthew Stewart, 4th earl of Lennox, that started the fatal train of events culminating in her destruction. People were against the marriage, so she was sent to prison, and beheaded under the order of her cousin Queen Elizabeth I because Elizabeth thought of Mary as a threat to her throne. Don’t get that close to me!