Arms of Marie de Guise at the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh, Scotland. Photo May 2000.
For ages I thought that this was a symbol of Mary Queen of Scots, but when I went to post it today I realized that didn’t make any sense and it eventually dawned on me that it had to be of Marie de Guise. This panel is facing one belonging to James V on the same part of the Palace (visible to the left end in Picture of the Week #34) so I realized the MR was probably his wife, not his daughter. I did a little digging and turned up an entry for it on the database of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland and sure enough, it was Marie de Guise!
