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8 DECEMBER 1542
Birth of Mary Stewart, Queen of Scots, at Linlithgow 
Palace. She was the daughter of James V, king of Scots, and Mary of Guise and their only surviving child. Her father died just six days after her birth.
Mary was executed on 8 February 1587 in the great hall of Fotheringhay.
(Photograph of Linlithgow Palace © Dorothea Preis)
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