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Beautiful video. Frary's perfect AU happy ending.😍💞🙌

This is what they deserved even just my own fantasy❤️

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Reign 2013-17

Toby Finn Regbo as Francis Valois

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On July 10th 1559 King  Henry II of France died and his son,  Francis II, husband of Mary Queen of Scots became King.

I will cover the circumstances of the death of Henry in a separate post, as it also has a Scottish connection

Francis was born on 19th January 1544, the eldest son of Henry II of France and Catherine de Medici, he was named after his grandfather, King Francis I.When Francis was four years old, the Scots and French signed the Treaty of Haddington, which I covered last week, arranging the betrothal of Mary Queen of Scots and the dauphin Francis in return for French aid to expel the invading English. Mary Queen of Scots sailed from Dumbarton for France in the August of 1548 when she was but five years old. 

The young Queen was accompanied by her four Marys, the daughters of Scottish noble families, Mary Beaton, Mary Seton, Mary Fleming and Mary Livingston

King Henry wrote ‘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’. Mary was a pretty child and brought up in the same nursery as her future husband and his siblings, became very attached to him.

Francis and Mary were married with spectacular pageantry and magnificence in the cathedral of Notre Dame, Paris, by the Cardinal Archbishop of Rouen, in the presence of Henry II, Queen Catherine de’ Medici and a glittering throng of cardinals and nobles. Francis was fourteen and Mary fifteen at the time, Francis then held the title King consort of Scotland.

The young Francis became a tool of Mary’s maternal relations, the ambitious Guise family, who seized the chance for power and hoped to crush the Huguenots in France. The Huguenot leader, Louis de Bourbon, prince de Condé plotted the conspiracy of Amboise in March 1560, an abortive coup d'etat in which Huguenots surrounded the Château of Amboise and attempted to seize the King. The conspiracy was savagely put down, and its failure led to the Guises gaining more power. This alarmed the king’s mother, Catherine de Medici, who reacted by attempting to secure the appointment of the moderate Michel de L'Hospital as chancellor.

On 18th September 1559, with the court still in mourning, Francis was crowned King Francis II at Reims by its archbishop, the Cardinal of Lorraine. It took four nobles to support the Crown of Charlemagne over his puny head. As a queen regnant, Mary was not crowned, but appeared in white, the traditional colour of mourning in France, conveniently the colour that suited her best. Francis was soon exhausted, starting to yawn at the banquet afterwards, seated in accordance with tradition at a table by himself. This brought the event to a hasty conclusion.

The health of the young king, which had always been fragile, deteriorated in November 1560 after he suffered a fainting fit on 16th November. After reigning for only seventeen months, Francis II died on 5th December 1560 in Orléans, Loiret, from an ear condition. Multiple diseases have been suggested as the cause of Francis’ death, such as mastoiditis, meningitis, or otitis exacerbated into an abscess. Francis was buried in the Basilica of St Denis.

When Francis I died, the Privy Council appointed his mother  Catherine de’ Medici as Governor with sweeping powers, unlike her husband, Henri, she was not a fan of her son’s wife and made it clear she was no longer wanted in France, the seventeen-year-old Mary, Queen of Scots prepared to return to her native Scotland.

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Catherine and her children *o*

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Portrait of Mary Queen of Scots and her first husband the Dauphin of France, Francis II

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On this day in History, Catherine de Médici gives birth to François, later François II, King of France and of Scotland. He was named after his grandfather, François I, King of France, in whose reign he was born.

(Livre de Heures de Catherine de Médicis.)

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Red meme

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Reign Favorites: Favorite Setting → French Court

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Attore inglese TOBY REGBO Toby Regbo Italia #englishactor #tobyregbo #tobyregboitalia #blogger #fyp #follow #reign #francis #mary

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Frary Best Ship❤️

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Reign 2013-17

Mary and Francis

'Cause baby when I'm dark

You always make it light.

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“Mary, don’t run from me”

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Reign 2013-17/01-07

Mary and Francis

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