How high was Mary?

The Spectator | April 1, 2006 | Copyright

From Lady Antonia Fraser Sir: We cannot know for sure the height of Mary Queen of Scots unless her skeleton were to be exhumed from its wonderful white marble tomb in Westminster Abbey (Letters, 25 March). God forbid! This has already happened to her once: Mary Queen of Scots was first interred in Peterborough Cathedral in 1587 some months after her execution. In 1612 her son James VI and I was shamed into providing a more central monument by his cryptoCatholic courtier Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton.

Mary Queen of Scots was certainly very tall, as everyone commented at the time ...

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