[#History] Rare Image of Mary Queen of Scots Found

You must know about Queen Elizabeth I of England; she was Queen of England and Ireland from 1558 to 1603. She was the last ruler from Tudor Dynasty of England because she did not marry. And hence she is also called the Virgin Queen.

Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots also had a claim on the throne of England. In the eyes of many Catholics, Elizabeth was illegitimate, and Mary Stuart, as the senior descendant of Henry VIII's elder sister, was the rightful queen of England.

Mary was imprisoned by Elizabeth in 1568 where she remained for 19 years. In 1587, she was accused of being part of a plot to murder Queen Elizabeth and executed by beheading. After beheading her, the executioner held her head in his hand and shouted "God save the Queen." Suddenly the head fell on earth while the hair remained in his hand - it turned out to be a wig since Mary had lost her hair due to her travails during imprisonment!

Now, "a rare portrait of Mary, Queen of Scots, as she would have looked as she languished in captivity in England some four-and-a-half centuries ago, has been discovered underneath a later painting of a Scottish nobleman.

In a sense, the newly discovered portrait of her mirrors that tragedy – for the project to paint her was abandoned halfway through, almost certainly as a result of her trial and execution."

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/magazines/panache/rare-ghostly-image-of-mary-queen-of-scots-found-beneath-artwork/articleshow/61280654.cms

- Rahul