Mary Stuart
Noun
Meaning
queen of Scotland from 1542 to 1567; as a Catholic she was forced to abdicate in favor of her son and fled to England where she was imprisoned by Elizabeth I; when Catholic supporters plotted to put her on the English throne she was tried and executed for sedition (1542-1587)
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Berg (2004) p. 110. She next played Mary Stuart in John Ford 's Mary of Scotland (1936), which met with a similarly poor reception.
Those women were Idgie Threadgoode (Mary Stuart Masterson), whose tomboyish attitude clashes with the 1930s southern town’s sensibilities, and Ruth Jamison (Mary-Louise Parker), a classic southern lady.
In the film (1993), the tender ballad "Have a Little Faith in Me" plays when Johnny Depp and Mary Stuart Masterson first kiss.
Shot and set in Spokane, this 1993 romantic comedy stars Mary Stuart Masterson as Joon (short for Juniper), a mentally ill artist who lives with her hardworking mechanic brother Benny (Aidan Quinn).
Collinson p. 67 Regnans in Excelsis gave English Catholics a strong incentive to look to Mary Stuart as the true sovereign of England.
In 1586 Walsingham uncovered the Babington Plot ; after the Ridolfi Plot (1571) and the Throckmorton Plot (1583), this was a further scheme to assassinate Elizabeth in which Mary Stuart was involved.