Mary had spent a great deal of her early years in France at the court of the French King, Henri II. She was married to the Dauphin Francois and would become Queen of France. Meanwhile Mary of ...

1545) and his third wife Mary Tudor (d.1533), sister of King Henry VIII and widow of King Louis XII of France. She was born on 16th July ... Lady Jane Grey was the "nine days queen", as proclaimed by ...

Conscious of the benefits of an alliance with France, the Scots betrothed the young queen to Francis, the four-year-old heir to the French crown, and sent Mary to be raised at the court of Henry II.