Stirling Castle and expanded his father's building programme, creating the centrepiece of the castle, the Royal Palace, built under the direction of Sir James Hamilton of Finnart and masons brought from France. James V also died young, leaving unfinished work to be completed by his widow, Mary of Guise. His infant daughter, Mary, Queen of Scots, was brought to Stirling Castle for safety, and crowned in the chapel royal on 9 September 1543. She too was brought up here, until she was sent to Inchmahome Priory, and then to France in 1548. In the 1550s, during the Regency of Mary of Guise,
House of Stuart House of Stuart The House of Stuart, originally Stewart, was a European royal house that originated in Scotland. The dynasty's patrilineal, putatively Breton ancestors had held the office of High Steward of Scotland since Walter FitzAlan in around 1150, after arriving by way of Norman England. The royal Stewart line was founded by Robert II (a maternal grandson of Robert the Bruce), whose descendants were Kings and Queens of Scots from 1371 until the union with England in 1707. Mary, Queen of Scots, was brought up in France, where she adopted the French spelling of the name, "Stuart". Her son,