At Borthwick Castle on June 11, 1567, a thousand Scottish nobles cornered this person, who fled the castle by jumping out the window, disguised as a pageboy.
Elizabeth I
Lord Darnley
Mary, Queen of Scots
Sir Francis Walsingham
Robert the Bruce
Mary, Queen of Scots. At Borthwick Castle on June 11, 1567, a thousand Scottish nobles cornered Mary, Queen of Scots, who fled the castle by jumping out the window, disguised as a pageboy. The nobles cornered the newly-wed Mary and her third husband, the dubious James Hepburn, Earl of Bothwell. They demanded Bothwell's head and Mary's renunciation of the Earl and his influence. Bothwell, a suspect in the murder of Queen Mary's second husband, Lord Darnley, just a few months before, fled the castle's sheltering 110-foot towers and the asylum offered by the 6th Lord Borthwick, leaving his wife and queen behind.
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