Marie d'Écosse

Marie d'Écosse (Marie Stuart; December 8th, 1542 — Present) is the reigning monarch of Scotland as the only legitimate surviving child of the late Jacques V, and his consort, Marie de Guise. Sent off to France at a young age in her early tenure to be raised in the safety of the Fontainebleau court, she was soon engaged and wed to François de France, Monseigneur le Dauphin and thus became Madame la Dauphine in her adolescence.

Becoming regnant at only six days old, Marie d'Écosse was looked over by her widowed mother, Marie de Guise, who also took charge of the realm after the first regent, Jacques Hamilton, Comte d'Arran. Her early reign was not a stable one, the mounting pressure against Marie de Guise who favoured pro-French decisions over Scottish ones and the gender of Marie Stuart was unpopular, the nobility preferred male leadership over that of an infant girl who to them was barely a Scot at all, this was further proven in their eyes when she was sent to France by her mother for her safety and upbringing to later marry the Dauphin.

A figure of tolerance toward her home realm which has seen itself riddled with clan wars, the spread of Protestantism and a growing hatred toward French rule over the Scots, which, for a half-French woman soon to be the Queen-Consort of France, added increased threat to the security of her rule, she remains keen on maintaining a friendly balance between Catholics and Protestants unlike her Guisard relatives or her mother-in-law, Marie d'Angleterre who had taken far more extreme measures to curb the increase in heretical beliefs amongst the people and the nobility.

Titles & Styles
December 8th, 1542 — December 14th, 1542 - Her Royal Highness, the Princess Mary of Scotland

December 14th, 1542 — April 24th, 1558 - Her Majesty, the Queen of Scotland

April 24th, 1558 — Present - Sa Majesté, Madame la Dauphine et Reine d'Écosse