Mary Stuart returned to Scotland on August 19th, 1561. Mary Stuart (or Mary Queen of Scots, as she is also known), left France, Calais, on the 14th of August, 1561. As she left France, Mary Stuart burst into tears. She said as she was leaving the port at Calais, and said, machere France. Mary was leaving a country which she grew up in, to go to one that she wasn't familiar with. Scotland. Mary was only 18 when she returned to Scotland. She had been in France since she was an infant. Mary Stuart was sent to live with the French royal family, by her mother who was French because Scotland was war torn. And Mary was the heir to the throne. Obviously she was far to young to take on the role of queen. Therefore, her life became a danger in Scotland. And a source of manipulation.
Mary choose to return to Scotland after her husband Francis II had died in the following year, 1560, on December. She had turned 18, and decided that the time was right to take back her throne.
The Queen of Scots was taking a chance, she was heading back to a country with protestant reformers at it's helm. Mary herself was a catholic. Mary's faith was something which put her life in danger. She was a catholic queen, in a protestant country. Her move back to Scotland can be seen as naive, in this light. However, it wasn't as naive as when Mary Stuart had decided to flee Scotland, for England. Mary had fled to England in thehope that her cousin Elizabeth I would protect her. This was really naive of Mary for two reasons. The first is, that her faith put her in danger, in England too. The second reason is that she had a claim to the English throne. These two things put her life in danger in England, especially the latter. The minute she set foot in England, she put a noose around her own neck. It seemed inevitable that she would die. Another thing which seems to emphasis that Mary was terribly naive, is that fact that she put in writing that she wanted to dispose Elizabeth and take the throne. She literally signed her own death warrant.
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