The outcome was inevitable. The English Queen decided Mary must die. One picture, the most tragic in Holyrood's whole collection, captures her final moments. This is Mary as Catholic icon. As martyr. She has not one crucifix, but two her prayer book in her hand, and then, just to that side there, you can see where her Catholicism led her, in this gruesome scene of Mary being beheaded on the scaffold at Fotheringay, by order of Elizabeth. And the executioner is poised there with his axe and you can see he's already landed one blow because the blood is pouring from Mary's neck.


伊利沙伯女皇决定把玛丽处死，这是荷里路德宫最悲惨的一幅画，描绘了她临终的情景 这是玛丽的天主教殉道者圣像，她持有两个十字架，不是一个，手上有本祈祷书，在那边。你可以看到她的教父引导者他，在她被斩首的恐怖情景里，伊丽莎白下令在脚手架上杀了她。刽子手拿着斧子泰然自若的，你可以看到他已经放下了一次斧子，因为血液已经从她的脖子流出。