The principal events in the life of Mary Queen of Scots. She was the daughter of Jacques the Fifth and Mary Guise and married Francis the Second, King of France. After the death of her husband in 1560, Mary Stuart left France and returned to her former home in Scotland, Her father having died in the meantime, she was made Queen. She was barely nineteen years of age, and her youth as well as her great beauty and charm of manners won for her the hearts of the Scots. She was a devout Roman Catholic and when she ascended the throne she found the country in the hands of the Protestants, who gave their young Queen much trouble. At last they revolted and threw her into prison, where, through the assistance of a maid, she escaped to England and asked her cousin Elizabeth for protection, but the latter betrayed her and had her cast into prison, where, through the assistance of a page, she secures a disguise and escapes through a window.