On this day in history - 20th August

On 20th August 1884, event happened

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Following the battle of arberry Hill, Nary Queen of Scots was imprisoned at Loch Leven Castle. Mary's imprisonment at Loch Leven was one of the most traumatic periods of her life - during her time at the castle she miscarried a baby (or possibly twins) and was forced to abdicate in favour of her son James. Mary soon made friends with some of her captors and was helped to escape from her prison by George Douglas, the son of Mary's keeper Sir William Douglas. Mary was rowed across the loch dressed as a servant girl, less than a year after her imprisonment, and fled to England, never to return to Scotland again.

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1589: James VI marries Anne of Denmark, daughter of King Frederik II of Denmark. The marriage is by proxy and her subsequent efforts to sail to Scotland see her blown back by storm to Norway, allegedly as a result of witchcraft.
1872: The death in Glasgow of William Miller, the Scottish poet best known as the author of the nursery rhyme Wee Willie Winkie.
1902: The birth in Edinburgh of Margaret Hunter, who as Margaret Thomson was a doctor who was imprisoned by the Japanese during the Second World War.

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