Mary, Queen of Scots
In Our Time
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Henry VIII's Marriage to Mary of Gies
Her father, James V of Scotland, died six days after her birth. She was brought up in Scotland for the first five years by her mother Merida Gies. Those were very dangerous times because Henry VIII was seizing his opportunity to attempt to unite the crowns of England and Scotland. When Mary was five, she was shipped over to the safety of France. And there, at the court of the French King Henry II, most important family members around her - Francis, Duke of Gies and Charles Carden of Corraine,. Her uncles.
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