Mary Stuart, Queen Consort of Francis II of France, c1560 Size:XL: 100 x 70cm 1865 (1956)

1865 (1956)

but Britain remained neutral

A print from Football Ambassador by EA (Eddie) Hapgood

showing a fruit seller outside her shop

Mary Stuart, Queen Consort of Francis II of France, c1560 Size:XL: 100 x 70cm 1865 (1956)Mary 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,