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Mary I (née Mary Stuart; December 8, 1542 – February 8, 1587) was Queen of Scotland from infancy, effectively reigning from 1561 until her deposition in 1567, and Queen of France in 1559–60 (as the wife of King Francis II) and a pretender to the English throne. Her tragic fate, full of quite “literary” dramatic twists and events, attracted writers of the Romantic and subsequent eras... The story is told by Natalia Ivanovna Basovskaya, a Soviet and Russian medieval historian. Professor at the Russian State University for the Humanities, Doctor of Historical Sciences. Specialist in the history of the Middle Ages in Western Europe.