b'Earliest records indicate that in 1155 in theFrancis II she became the Queen Consortreign of King Malcolm IV, Malleville wasof France. However, in 1561 after the an estate in the ownership of an Anglo- premature death of the King, Marie Stuart,Norman Baron called Galfrid de Malle whoa nineteen year old widow made the decision was Sheriff of Edinburgh and Governor ofto return to Scotland. Though the Royal Edinburgh Castle. It remained in his familyScottish Court was established in Holyrood until the time of King Robert Bruce II. When,Palace in Edinburgh, the malodorous city in 1371 it passed through marriage to Sir JohnNobles persuaded the Queen to settle her Ross of Halkhead. The castle continued asFrench retinue a few miles south of the city the seat of that branch of the Ross family forin an area which is known, even today as many generations. Little France.In 1542, owing to the death of the ScottishThe Queen, a fine horsewoman, became a King, James V, Mary Stuart, his daughterfrequent visitor to nearby Castle Melville, became Queen of Scotland. She was 6 daysinvariably in the company of her Italian old. Because of political and religious unrestsecretary and close companion Seigneur in Scotland she was to spend her earlyDavid Rizzio, who took apartments in the years in France with her mother Marie decastle. As indication of his love for the Guise, adopting much of French culture, andQueen, Rizzio planted a majestic Spanish controversially the Roman Catholic faith. chestnut tree which survives to this day 450 years later. In turn, the Queen responded by In 1558, she married the Dauphine of Franceplanting 5 Oak trees along the drive which and on his accession to the throne as Kingalso survive today.And the lives and times it encompassed.'