A brutal price to pay, but for James and many others, it was a step towards a safer Scotland. An engraving showing King James VI of Scotland and his queen, Anne of Denmark. They married in 1589.
On Mary’s abdication in 1567, her infant son James became King. Mary’s half-brother, the Earl of Moray, was the first of James' regents and had to cope with the fact that Mary still had strong ...