Mary had always had a taste for history, and now in the long days of captivity she seems to have given much of her time to this favourite study. The … - Mary Monica Maxwell-Scott

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Mary had always had a taste for history, and now in the long days of captivity she seems to have given much of her time to this favourite study. The history of her own house, as well as that of the English royal family, must have had a deep and painful interest for her at a moment when she herself was threatened with a fate as tragic as any recorded in its darkest pages.