Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, was an "adultress and liar" who plotted to kill her husband in order to marry her lover, a study by modern gynaecologists has suggested.
An intriguing new medical analysis claims that Mary, the cousin of Elizabeth I, concocted a story of kidnap and alleged rape to justify her marriage to her third husband - potentially shedding light on a 400-year-old royal murder mystery.
Far from being the saintly and wronged Roman Catholic monarch portrayed in portraits and films, Mary was actually a "moral loose cannon", whose striking beauty and sex appeal gave Elizabeth other reasons to imprison and execute her, the researchers suggest.
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Mary, Queen of Scots, was a captivating beauty and seen as a threat by Elizabeth 1. Mary was executed for treason after a 19 year stay in the Tower
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