he did. On 29 June 1573, and again on 15 July, she was ordered to return a chain or necklace of rubies and diamonds in her possession that had belonged to Mary, queen of Scots. The piece had been a pledge for money lent to William Kirkcaldy of Grange, captain of Edinburgh Castle. The piece was described as "a chayn of rubeis with twelfth merkis of diamantis and rubeis and ane merk with twa rubys in 1578. Later life Mary Fleming did not receive the restoration of Lethington's estate and properties until 1581 or 1582 by grant of King James VI, gaining a rehabilitation on 19 February 1584 for herself and her son. She was allowed the benefit of a property Maitland had given her, Bolton in East Lothian. She had two children, a boy James, who later became a Catholic and lived in France and Belgium in self-imposed exile, and a daughter Margaret, who married Robert Ker, 1st Earl of Roxburghe. In 1581, Mary, queen of Scots asked Elizabeth I to grant Fleming safe conduct so she could visit the imprisoned queen of Scots. There is no evidence that Mary Fleming went. The last documents attributed to her are her letter to William Cecil and a letter to her sister discussing some bad feelings that existed between Fleming and her brother-in-law Coldingham. She married secondly, George Meldrum of Fyvie. In popular culture In the 2007 film Elizabeth: The Golden Age, Mary Stuart's lady-in-waiting Annette Fleming, played by Susan Lynch, is an allusion to Mary Fleming. In the 2013-2017 CW television series Reign, the character Lady Lola Fleming, played by Anna Popplewell, is based on Mary Fleming. In the 2018 film Mary Queen of Scots, Mary Fleming is played by actress Maria-Victoria Dragus. Lady Mary Fleming features prominently in the novel The Abbott by Walter Scott, where she shares Mary Stewart's imprisonment in Loch Leven castle and escape from it. References 1542 births 16th-century Scottish people 16th-century Scottish women Court of Mary, Queen of Scots Scottish ladies-in-waiting Year of death unknown People of the Scottish Marian Civil War Daughters of barons