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."
-
Rahul
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