Why Did Elizabeth I & Mary, Queen of Scots Never Meet?

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Let’s take a look at Elizabeth and Mary, Queen of Scots and the meetings that might have been…

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Images (from Wikimedia Commons, unless otherwise stated):

Portrait of Mary, Queen of Scots by François Clouet (from 1558 until 1560). Held by the Royal Collection.

Portrait of Queen Elizabeth I by an unknown English artist (c.1600). Held by the National Portrait Gallery.

Illumination of Mary and François in Catherine de' Medici's book of hours (c.1574). Held by the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris.

The arms of Mary, Queen of Scots and the French dauphin, and of Scotland, France and England, sent from France, July 1559: Cotton MS Caligula B X/1, ff. 17v–18r. From: https://blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscri...

Portrait of Mary, Queen of Scots in “white mourning” by François Clouet (between c.1559 and c.1560). Held by the Royal Collection.

Portrait of the Infante Don Carlos by Alonso Sánchez Coello (1564). Held by the Kunsthistorisches Museum.

Portrait of Robert Dudley, earl of Leicester attributed to Steven van der Meulen (c.1560-1565). Held by The Wallace Collection.

Portrait of Mary, Queen of Scots, and her second husband Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley by an unknown artist (16th century). Held at Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire, in the care of the National Trust.

“The Tide Letter” from https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/e...


Quoted texts:

Julian Goodare, ODNB entry on Mary, Queen of Scots.


Also consulted, were:

Other relevant entries from The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Online.

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