Old Photograph Shoregate Street Crail East Neuk Of Fife Scotland

Old photograph of houses on Shoregate Street in Crail, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. King James V, the father of Mary Queen of Scots, sent for his wife, Mary of Guise, whom he had recently married by proxy in Paris, and she landed in Crail in June 1538. accompanied by a navy of ships under Lord Maxwell, and 2,000 lords and barons whom her new husband had sent from Scotland to fetch her away, Queen Mary landed at Crail in Fife on 10 June 1538, just over a year since the landing of Queen Madeleine. She was formally received by the king at St Andrews a few days later with pageants and plays performed in her honour, and a great deal of generally blithe rejoicing, before being remarried the next morning in the Cathedral of St Andrews. Queen Madeleine, the first wife of James V, had landed at Leith, Edinburgh, in the spring of 1537 and died shortly afterwards.



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