King’s lost boys

In your article on Mary, Queen of Scots (29 June), it is stated she was the only child of James V and Mary of Guise. This should have read “only surviving child”.

James and his queen also had two sons, both of whom died the year before Mary’s birth.

Derrick McClure

Rosehill Terrace

Aberdeen

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