Stirling Castle A few structures of the fourteenth century remain, while the outer defences fronting the town date from the early eighteenth century. Before the union with England, Stirling Castle was also one of the most used of the many Scottish royal residences, very much a palace as well as a fortress. Several Scottish Kings and Queens have been crowned at Stirling, including Mary, Queen of Scots, in 1542, and others were born or died there. There have been at least eight sieges of Stirling Castle, including several during the Wars of Scottish Independence, with the last being in 1746, when Bonnie
Mary Beaton Ogilvy of Boyne in April 1566, having one son, James, born in 1568. Little else is known of her life. After the execution of Queen Mary, it was claimed by the writer Adam Blackwood in 1587 that Mary Beaton's handwriting was similar to the Queen's and so some of her private letters might have formed the basis for the casket letters produced to incriminate Queen Mary. She died in 1598 at the age of 55. Beaton is portrayed by Eileen O’Higgins in the 2018 film Mary, Queen of Scots. Mary Beaton Mary Beaton (1543–1598) was a Scottish noblewoman and an