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Evening Standard
Lucinda Cameron

New exhibition to challenge perceptions of Mary Queen of Scots

A model is pictured wearing a replica of the pink dress Mary is pictured wearing in a portrait, alongside one dressed in black (Duncan McGlynn/PA) -

A new exhibition presenting Mary Queen of Scots as a Renaissance queen and giving a flavour of what it was like to be in her “vibrant” court is to open in Edinburgh next year.

Curators said that while many think of Mary dressed in black and see her through the lens of her death, the exhibition aims to challenge perceptions and show a contrasting side, when she was a sophisticated figure moving between palaces.

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