. Historical portraits ... and with it the French alliance with which the wholehistory of old Scotland was bound up. The child was crowned atStirhng in her ninth month, and, after overtures had been madeboth by Henry VIII and the Protector Somerset for a marriagebetween her and Edward VI,—overtures naturally fruitless becausethe English endeavoured to back them up by bloody raids andinvasions,—she was sent in 1548 to France as the affianced bride ofthe Dauphin. There for twelve years her upbringing was whollyFrench, and it must be sadly confessed that she remained a French-woman rather than a
. Historical portraits ... and with it the French alliance with which the wholehistory of old Scotland was bound up. The child was crowned atStirhng in her ninth month, and, after overtures had been madeboth by Henry VIII and the Protector Somerset for a marriagebetween her and Edward VI,—overtures naturally fruitless becausethe English endeavoured to back them up by bloody raids andinvasions,—she was sent in 1548 to France as the affianced bride ofthe Dauphin. There for twelve years her upbringing was whollyFrench, and it must be sadly confessed that she remained a French-woman rather than a Scot to the end of her life. Of her naturalgifts, refined by a brilliant though not solid education, there can beno doubt, any more than of her great personal charm and , when her marriage to the Dauphin actually took place in 1558,she signed, with her eyes open, a deed making over the crownof Scotland, in the event of her own death without heirs, to theFrench King. The old alliance of Scotland and France was. Injz. ^tiiuntz MARY QUEEN OF SCOTSFrom a drawing attributed to Fran9ois Clouet in the Bibliotheque Nationale. Paris Face /. 72 MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS 73 already tottering and this deed was enough to shatter it. WhenMary Tudor died later in that same year, Mary and her husbandtook the title of King and Queen of England and Ireland in additionto that of Scotland, and on the death of Henry II in 1559 the title ofFrance was naturally added. Elizabeth, however, promptly protestedagainst the former assumption, and interfered in Scotland to sucheffect that the Scottish Lords repudiated their Queens claims onEngland by the treaty of Edinburgh, 1560. And at the end of thatyear, by the death of her first husband, Mary ceased also to beQueen of France. Could she hope even to retain Scotland? Itseemed doubtful, for the Protestant Lords were negotiating for amarriage between Elizabeth and Marys heir presumptive, the Earlof Arran, Yet much would depend upon the young Queen h
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