On the day that our distant cousin Mary Elizabeth Donaldson becomes Queen Consort of Denmark following the abdication of her mother-in-law Queen Margrethe II and the succession of her husband as King Frederik X of Denmark, we look into the murder of her great (x6) grandfather, John Adam, in the 1797 Massacre of Tranent. “I … Continue reading John Adam, ancestor of Queen Mary of Denmark and a victim of the 1797 Massacre of Tranent