Queen of Scots return?

[Highland Logan]

So some people really do care about where the bodies are buried.

Yes I think a great many do, but this sounds like a matter for Scots to deside, and is more than a little polticial and as such anyone not living in Scotland should stay out of it... it's their business.

Frank

[macwilkin]

This reminds me of the ongoing feud between Missouri and Kentucky over the remains of Daniel and Rebecca Boone.

Regards,

Todd

[MacMillan of Rathdown]

... this sounds like a matter for Scots to deside... and as such anyone not living in Scotland should stay out of it... it's their business.

Frank

Sorry Frank, but I'd have to disagree-- suppose a journalist in Aberdeen decided that, as he was born in Scotland, the body of John Paul Jones should be removed from the U.S. Naval Academy and re-buried in Scotland?

The same applies to Mary. As the dowager Queen of France it could be argued (by French monarchists) that she should be buried next to her husband, Francois II. In France.

The reality is that Mary considered herself to be the de jure, if not the de facto, Queen of England. To underscore that point her son had her dug up, and dragged (with full ceremony) to London to be re-buried at Westminster.

Really, given the generally anti-royalist views voiced by many Scots-- especially in the media and the Scottish Assembly, I'd have thought the last thing most Scots would want would be the body of a long deceased Royal dragged across the border and planted at some to-be-determined tourist destination.

Yours,
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