Scotland · House / House of Stewart. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.
If authentic throughout, they provide proof of Marys complicity in the murder of her husband, Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley. Casket Letters is the name generally given to a group of eight letters and a sequence of irregular sonnets said to have been addressed by Mary, Queen of Scots, to the Earl of Bothwell, between January and April 1566 or 1567
The majority of scholarly opinion is that the letters were forgeries concocted after the fact in order to lend some small justification for Marys imprisonment and trial, both of which were illegal under English Law
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