Marie Beton, she is both darimpus and sclenbrunit, and you in like manner without contrebaxion or kylteperante, so you are both worth little money." George Buchanan wrote Latin verses praising her in his Valentiniana. Mary Beaton eventually married Alexander Ogilvy of Boyne in April 1566. They had one son, James, born in 1568. In June 1566 she was with Mary, Queen of Scots, in Edinburgh Castle when she gave birth to Prince James, later James VI. Beaton told Sir James Melville of Halhill, who rode to London with the news. After the execution of Queen Mary, it was claimed by the writer Adam Blackwood in 1587 that Mary Beaton's handwriting was similar to the Queen's and so some of her private letters might have formed the basis for the casket letters produced to incriminate Queen Mary. In May 1590 she greeted the new queen of Scotland, Anne of Denmark, at the Shore of Leith, with the Countess of Mar, Lady Seton, Lady Thirlestane, and Lady Dudhope and 30 other gentlewomen. Mary, Queen of Scots, made a will leaving her books to Beaton, who had literary interests, but she probably never received the queen's library. She gave a copy of the Comedies of Terence in Latin and French to James VI. Later, she became a friend of the poet William Fowler, who served as secretary to Anna of Denmark. He dedicated a translation from Ariosto to "The right honourable Ladye Marye betoun Ladye Boine." She wrote a poem to preface his translation of the Triumphs of Petrarch. She died in 1598 at the age of 55. In popular culture In the 2013-17 CW television series Reign, the character, Lady Greer, played by Celina Sinden is loosely based on Mary Beaton. In the 2018 film Mary, Queen of Scots, Mary Beaton is played by Northern Irish actress Eileen O’Higgins. Resources St Andrews: Noble order of Royal Scots Antonia Fraser, Mary, Queen of Scots, Dell Publishing Co., Inc. New York, March 1971 References 1543 births 1598 deaths Court of Mary, Queen of Scots 16th-century Scottish women Scottish ladies-in-waiting People from Fife 16th-century Scottish people 16th-century Scottish poets Scottish women poets