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A Long and Illustrious History › The Tudors and Stuarts
Who was Mary, Queen of Scots?
- The Catholic queen of Scotland who was executed by Elizabeth I
- A Stuart queen who ruled both England and Scotland
- A Tudor princess who became queen of France
- The first queen to rule England in her own right
Why this is the correct answer
Mary, Queen of Scots was a Catholic monarch who ruled Scotland and was seen as a threat to the Protestant Queen Elizabeth I of England. After years of imprisonment in England, she was executed in 1587 on Elizabeth's orders following evidence of a plot against the English queen.