What is recorded here
This bronze commemorative plaque records: On this site stood the lodgings of Sir Simon Preston of Craigmillar, Provost of the City of Edinburgh 1566-7, in which lodging Mary Queen of Scotland after her surrender to the confederate lords at Carberry Hill, spent her last night in Edinburgh, 15 June 1567. On the following evening she was conveyed to Holyrood and thereafter to Lochleven Castle as a state prisoner.
Mary Stuart, Queen of Scotland, is remembered for her tumultuous reign and tragic end, marked by political intrigue and conflict; Simon Preston was a prominent Edinburgh Provost whose lodgings briefly hosted Mary after her surrender to rebellious Scottish lords in 1567.
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