Mary Stuart, Queen Consort of Francis II of France, c1560 mb-code MN003280 early 1940s

early 1940s

It was a country wedding

Sir William Curtis enters the room wearing Highland costume

at Television Centre

Mary Stuart, Queen Consort of Francis II of France, c1560 mb-code MN003280 early 1940sMary Stuart, Queen Consort of Francis II of France, c1560 (1882 1884). Mary, Queen of Scots (1542 1587) married Francis, then Dauphin of France, in 1558. He became king the following year but died in 1560. Mary returned to Scotland but in 1567 was forced to abdicate the Scottish throne in favour of James, her one year old son by her second husband, Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, and fled to England. As a Catholic with a claim to the throne of her cousin,