LONDON—British police arrested a man on Tuesday in connection with the theft of gold rosary beads carried by Mary Queen of Scots to her execution in 1587, among items worth more than £1 million ($1.37 million) stolen from a castle in the south of England.
Mary, a Roman Catholic, was ousted from the Scottish throne then imprisoned, accused of treason, and executed on the orders of her Protestant cousin Elizabeth I of England, a series of events that loom large in the British imagination.
