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SNP MSP turns dead body into Political Football: Mary Queen of Scots
A Nationalist MSP has called for the remains of Mary Queen of Scots to be returned to Scotland.
The Catholic monarch’s body has lain at Westminster Abbey in London since shortly after she was executed on the orders of her cousin Elizabeth in 1587.
South of Scotland MSP Christine Grahame is to make a motion to the Scottish Parliament later this week demanding the body be repatriated.
It seems to me that the decision of James I (Eng)/James VI (Sco), the son of Mary Queen of Scots, to inter her body in Westminster Abbey should not be overruled by petty nationalist politics four centuries later, but it would be poetic justice if Christine Grahame MSP descended on Westminster Abbey with her Komatsu mini-Bulldozer to liberate the body, only to discover that she was faced with a Cardinal Newman situation – nothing left at all.
