... not only Elizabeth, but also her ministers (especially Cecil), and her national policy. It also had profound effects for France and Scotland as well. The official motives for intervention in Scotland were set out to Elizabeth by Cecil in order to show the grave danger to her crown and to her country. Cecil started off by pointing out the disposition of the French to conquer England. Mary " the Scottish Queen, whose right was next in succession"1, was a Catholic, raised in France and also allied to France through her marriage to Francis II. Although soon King and Queen of both France and Scotland, power lay with their relatives, the House of Guise, "which was always hostile to England"2. The English were particularly suspicious towards them, as they had been the ones who had taken away Calais in 1559. This culminated in a fear that they were making Scotland into ...

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