‘En ma fin git mon commencement’ … ‘In my end is my beginning’ is the motto to one of the most enigmatic characters in British history, Mary Queen of Scots. Having fallen out with her lords and being defeated by them at the battle of Langside, Mary fled Scotland to England, coming ashore near to Workington on the Cumbrian coast on 16 May 1568; she was eventually brought to Bolton Castle on 15 July that same year. Visit the rooms she occupied and join our Living Historians to find out more about life in a Tudor castle, especially one that played host for six months to the captive Queen of Scotland.