More than half of Britons cannot identify Scotland’s most famous queen, research shows.
Fifty-one per cent of people questioned could not identify who Mary Queen of Scots was from her portrait, a survey commissioned by the University of Glasgow found.
And beyond her red hair, the survey found that Britons know very little about the Linlithgow Palace-born monarch and her history.
Married three times and widowed twice before she was 25, Mary’s third husband was believed to have killed her second before forcing her to marry him.
But her trauma did not end there. She was betrayed and imprisoned by her cousin, Elizabeth I of England, for 19 years before she was beheaded at the age of 44.
But, according to the survey, only 27% could correctly state how old she was when she was killed and just 18% knew she was just six days old when she became queen of Scotland.
A total of 62% were able to identify her famous red hair, and 63% of people who were asked knew she was accused of killing her second husband, Lord Darnley.
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