A letter featuring the handwriting of Mary Queen of Scots is to go under the hammer next month. The document, which could fetch between £14, 000 and £18, 000, is an appeal from her to the French ambassador in England to allow the safe passage of Scottish nobleman, George Douglas, to France.It was written in Carlisle Castle two months after her escape from Lochleven Castle in Perthshire on May 2 1568, where she had been imprisoned for nearly a year following a forced abdication in favour of her i
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2022-01-28 00:00:00.0