Excerpt from Mary Queen of Scots and the Babington Plot: Edited, From the Original Documents in the Public Record Office, the Yelverton Mss., And Elsewhere The story is told that Queen Victoria, calling once on the late Sir John Millais, took his little boy, whose face is familiar to us in more than one of the great painter's pictures, and set him on her knee. But the child pouted, and would not be friendly, saying in explanation, You are wicked Queen Elizabeth, who cut Off good Queen Mary's head.' Her Majesty laughingly kissed the child saying, 'no, dear, I am Queen Of England, because I descend from good Queen Mary; and I have not a drop Of wicked Queen Elizabeth's blood in my body.' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.