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To France
Songwriter(s) Mike Oldfield
MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS
Queen consort of France
Tenure 10 July 1559 – 5 December 1560
Mary returned to Scotland, arriving in Leith on 19 August 1561.
Life in France
With her marriage agreement in place, five-year-old Mary was sent to France to spend the next thirteen years at the French court. The French fleet sent by Henry II, commanded by Nicolas de Villegagnon, sailed with Mary from Dumbarton on 7 August 1548 and arrived a week or more later Roscoff or Saint-Pol-de-Léon in Brittany.
Mary was accompanied by her own court including two illegitimate half-brothers, and the "four Marys" (four girls her own age, all named Mary), who were the daughters of some of the noblest families in Scotland Beaton, Seton, Fleming, and Livingston. Janet, Lady Fleming, who was Mary Fleming's mother, and James V's half-sister, was appointed governess. When Lady Fleming left France in 1551, she was succeeded by a French governess, Françoise de Paroy.
Vivacious, beautiful, and clever (according to contemporary accounts), Mary had a promising childhood. At the French court, she was a favorite with everyone, except Henry II's wife Catherine de Medici. Mary learned to play lute and virginals was competent in prose, poetry, horsemanship, falconry, and needlework, and was taught French, Italian, Latin, Spanish, and Greek, in addition to speaking her native Scots.
Portraits of Mary show that she had a small, oval-shaped head, a long, graceful neck, bright auburn hair, hazel-brown eyes, under heavy lowered eyelids and finely arched brows, smooth pale skin, a high forehead, and regular, firm features. She was considered a pretty child and later, as a woman, strikingly attractive. At some point in her infancy or childhood, she caught smallpox, but it did not mark her features.
Mary was eloquent, and especially tall by 16th-century standards (she attained an adult height of 5 feet 11 inches or 1.80 m); while Henry II's son and heir, Francis, stuttered and was unusually short. Henry commented: "from the very first day they met, my son and she got on as well together as if they had known each other for a long time". On 4 April 1558, Mary signed a secret agreement bequeathing Scotland and her claim to England to the French crown if she died without issue.
Twenty days later, she married the Dauphin at Notre Dame de Paris, and he became king consort of Scotland.
Maggie Reilly version "To France"
Single by Maggie Reilly
from the album Elena
Released 1 March 1997
Maggie Reilly singles chronology
"Walk on By (The Mixes)" (1996)
"To France" (1997)
"Listen to Your Heart (The Mixes)" (1997)
In 1996, Maggie Reilly re-recorded "To France" on her solo album Elena, and in 2009 she recorded another version of the song for her album Looking Back Moving Forward. Compared to the original, this version is significantly Pop-heavy. Maggie Reilly released their version under her initials M. R.
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