Old Photograph Queen Mary's Supper Room Holyrood Palace Edinburgh Scotland

Old photograph of Queen Mary's Supper Room in Holyrood Palace, Edinburgh, Scotland. When Mary Queen of Scots arrived at the palace in 1561 she chose to stay in the apartments where her mother, Marie de Guise, had lived. Between 1561 and 1567 Mary entertained dignitaries, held masques, loved and suffered in the palace. She met John Knox in a series of confrontational audiences. She married first Lord Darnley then Bothwell at Holyroodhouse. Her private secretary, David Rizzio, was brutally murdered there and Mary’s life was threatened. This is the tiny supper room where Rizzio was dragged away to his death.



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