Celebrating Francis & Mary's real life anniversary -- April 24th 1558🥰👰🏻‍♀️💒🤴🥹

“It’s you, It’s always been you” - Mary 

24th of April 1558 - Mary, Queen of Scots weds Francis, the Dauphin of France at Notre-Dame Cathedral 

          ‘All I can tell you is that I account myself one of the happiest women in the world’                                                     - Mary on her marriage to Francis

IT’S ALWAYS BEEN YOU, a small fanmix for all those post-frary wedding feels; for the adorable newlyweds, the future king and queen of scotland and france  [LISTEN] ♔ [DOWNLOAD]

i. dance me to the end of love the civil wars oh, dance me to the wedding now, oh, dance me on and on / and dance me very tenderly, and dance me very long / we’re both of us beneath our love, and both of us above / and dance me to the end of love ii. a thousand years celia pavey time stands still / beauty in all he is / i will be brave / i will not let anything take away / what’s standing in front of me / every breath / every hour has come to this / one step closer iii. i choose you sara bareilles my whole heart / will be yours forever / this is a beautiful start / to a lifelong love letter / tell the world that we finally got it all right / i choose you iv. the power of love gabrielle aplin this time we go sublime / lovers entwined, divine divine / love is danger, love is pleasure / love is pure, the only treasure / i’m so in love with you v. so close jon mclaughlin so close to reaching / that famous happy ending / almost believing / this one’s not pretend / and now you’re beside me / and look how far we’ve come / so far we are / so close vi. down river the temper trap finally / we have seen some things / some awfully nice / some awfully bad / but we will sing / wash the blood off our knees / ‘cause our love breaks / through rough seas, our ship will sail vii. come to me goo goo dolls today’s the day i’ll make you mine / so, get me to the church on time / take my hand in this empty room / you’re my girl, and i’m your groom / come to me, my sweetest friend / this is where we start again, again viii. back to you twin forks love, lower your eyes / leave me a sign / follow the signs right back to you / back to you, back to you / i know they wind right back to you / back to you, back to you / i trust the signs so i may find my way to you

Beautiful!😍 Watching this still makes me so emotional & happy👰🏻‍♀️💒💞🤴🥹🙌

April 24 1558 Mary Stuart and Francis II Valois were married at Notre Dame Cathedral Paris France

On this day, April 24th 1558, the RL Frary wed.💒💞

Reign 1x13 - The Consummation

You, It’s always been you.

Reign - 1x13 The Consummation

Happy Anniversary to the real life Mary Stuart & Francis Valois who were wed on this day, April 24th 1558.👰🏻‍♀️💞🤴💒

Mary Queen of Scots and Prince Francis wedding ceremony in season one: episode 13 “The Consummation”.

Mini prayer book (Livre heures) of Mary Stuart. This was first made by Francis I before his reign and marriage to give to Princess Claude, the King's daughter. It was a wedding gift between them. After Claude's death, it passed down to Francis II, and after his death it was given to Mary Stuart, his wife.

24th April 1558 saw Mary Queen of Scots marry the French Dauphin, François de Valois, at Notre Dame in Paris.

In 1548 five-year-old Mary was sent to her grandmother Antoinette of Guise in France, where her Scottish entourage was considered appallingly barbarous and swiftly got rid of, she was then brought up as a Catholic Frenchwoman.

French became her first language, she always called herself Marie Stuart and she loved dancing and hunting. She grew up delightfully charming, graceful and attractive, the French fell in love with her and Henry II of France resolved to marry her to his son and heir, the sickly dauphin Francis.

A marriage treaty was signed with the Scots, which provided that Scotland and France should eventually be united under Mary and Francis as one kingdom. There were also secret agreements, which the youthful and inexperienced Mary signed, that would have made Scotland a mere adjunct of France.

Mary was fifteen and Francis fourteen when they were married on this day in 1558, with spectacular pageantry and magnificence in the cathedral of Notre Dame, Paris, by the Cardinal Archbishop of Rouen, in the presence of Henry II, Queen Catherine de’ Medici, the princes and princesses of the blood and a glittering throng of cardinals and nobles.

The Duke of Guise was master of ceremonies. Mary in a white dress with a long train borne by two young girls, a diamond necklace and a golden coronet studded with jewels, was described by the courtier Pierre de Brantôme as ‘"a hundred times more beautiful than a goddess of heaven … her person alone was worth a kingdom.’ The wedding was followed by a procession past excited crowds in the Paris streets to a grand banquet in the Palais de Justice with dancing far into the night.

Mary became Queen of France when Henry II died the following year, but Francis died prematurely in 1560. Whether the marriage was ever consummated is uncertain. Mary’s mother also died in 1560 and it suited the French to send her back to Scotland and claim that she was the rightful queen of England as well.

She would eventually meet political and romantic disaster in Scotland, enduring years of imprisonment in England where, too dangerous a threat to Elizabeth’s throne, Mary was executed in 1587, at the age of forty-six.

Today is National Lover’s Day. Frary represents this day!❤️❤️

Frary + Matching Outfits

that was amazing. i never… in france, the queen is the person who is married to the king. but to those men, you are their liege lord, the one to whom oaths of loyalty are made.

francis looking gorgeous in 1x16