At the very end of his article, Martin Scicluna mistook Mary Queen of Scots, for Mary I, known as Mary Tudor, the Catholic daughter of Henry VIII and his first consort, Catherine of Aragon, sometimes with some justification, referred to as ‘Bloody Mary’.

Mary Queen of Scots was just a teenager, living in France, soon to marry the Dauphin, when Calais was lost to the French in 1558. It was Mary Tudor who reputedly said “the name of Calais would be found written on my heart”.

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