Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots
This is a picture of Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, who is said to have been so beautiful and so wholly charming that no man could long resist her fascination. She was crowned when scarcely a year old and married Francis II, the young dauphin of France, when she was fifteen. Upon the death of the dauphin she became the wife of her cousin, Lord Darnley. Despite her beauty and winning ways the young queen's reign upon the throne of Scotland was full of troubles, which finally ended in her tragic death at the hands of Queen Elizabeth of England. In the background of the picture we see Holyrood Castle.
Prince Charlie, "The Young Pretender"
Charles Edward Stuart, the grandson of James II of England, was known ot his followers as "Bonnie Prince Charlie," whilst his enemies called him "the Young Pretender." His father before him had attempted to regain the British throne, from which his grandfather had been driven, and the young man himself, in the year 1745, went over from his refuge in France to place himself at the head of his faithfull follwers in Scotland and to descend upon England in a final effort for his lost throne.
