19 April 2022, Starts: 18:30

Lady Jean Gordon, Countess of Bothwell

Online talk by Jennifer Morag Henderson, organised by History Scotland. Cost £10. Bookings from HistoryScotland website

Jennifer Morag Henderson shares stories from her fascinating research into Lady Jean Gordon (1546-1629), known best to history as the wife of James Hepburn, Lord Bothwell – third husband of Mary Queen of ScotsThe talk will centre upon the downfall of the Huntly family – the dramatic defeat of Jean Gordon's father George Gordon by James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray , and what that then meant for the Huntly family and, more widely, for the Scotland of Mary Queen of Scots.