September 9

Have you ever felt that your family at times puts just a little too much pressure on you to live up to their expectations? Whatever you faced in this regard should really be considered in light of Mary Stuart’s parents’ expectations. On the 9th of September in 1543 Mary, aged nine months, was crowned ‘Queen of Scots’ in the village of Stirling in Scotland. My guess is that she still had to eat all of her strained peas.