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Point of Divergence ... Mary Queen of Scots was first married to King Francis the II in 1558. When they were married, Francis was already sickly. But Mary genuinely cared for her young husband, and nursed him and cared for him medically. Despite all the efforts of Mary and the numerous physicians, on December 5, 1560, Francis died at the young age of sixteen. A power vacuum appeared that Francis' mother, Catherine De Medici, stepped right into. She declared that the widowed Mary had no place at the French court with Francis being dead, and she sent Mary back to Scotland, setting her on the path that would lead to her beheading in 1588.

What if Francis the II had rallied and lived? How would Mary's, Scotland's, and France's fate be different?
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