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LONDON - Moves to have the body of Mary, Queen of Scots returned to Scotland will be initiated by a Nationalist MP in the Scottish Parliament this week.
South of Scotland MSP Christine Grahame is to table a motion in the Scottish Parliament calling for the Catholic monarch's remains to be returned from Westminster Abbey, where she is interred, to Falkland Palace, in Fife.
Mary fled to England after being forced to abdicate in 1567. She was held prisoner by her cousin, Elizabeth I, found guilty of treason and executed 20 years later.
Westminster Abbey said the body was taken there at the "express instructions" of her son and it takes its responsibility very seriously.
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