Queen Mary's Mount

The horse in the field would be unaware of the momentous occasion here when Mary Queen of Scots mounted her horse for the last time as a free woman.   At Carberry Hill on the 15th June 1597 her army faced that of the influential Confederate Lords who had turned against her and her very unpopular husband, Bothwell, who was believed to have been behind the murder of her previous husband.  After her troops dwindled during negotiations she surrendered with Bothwell escaping to Dunbar and she was taken first to a house in Edinburgh and then imprisoned at Loch Leven Castle
This is part of my occasional series on places connected with the famous, but tragic, Mary Queen of Scots (see the tags)
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