[4] After their defeat by the Confederate lords at the battle of Carberry Hill on 15 June 1567, Mary Seton accompanied the captive queen back to Edinburgh.
[6] Knollys wrote that;"Yesterday, and this daye she dyd sett sotche a curled heare uppon the Queen, that was said to be a perewyke that showed very delycately: and every other day lightly ... (word lost) she hathe a newe devyce of head dressyng, withowte any coste, and yett setteth forthe a woman gaylye well.
[10] The messenger carrying the letters, John Moon, was captured, and Mary Pieris was imprisoned in Edinburgh, for writing to the exiled queen.
[12] Mary Seton then had an older woman as her servant, Janet Lindsay, and as they were tired of each other by April 1577, she was allowed back to Scotland.
[13] One of her brothers visited the French ambassador in London, Michel de Castelnau, in May or June 1581.
Seton said that she had not seen the Queen as ill before, her side gave her evil pains especially in the thigh and leg.
The Queen lacked appetite, was losing sleep, and in Seton's opinion could not long continue.
Maitland visited the convent and found Seton to be living in poverty and suffering from failing health.
He complained to her family, to whom he was remotely related, and to Queen Mary's son James VI of Scotland, but there is no evidence of a response.
[20][21][22] In the 2013-17 CW television series Reign, the character Lady Aylee, played by Janessa Grant, was loosely based on Mary Seton.