Stella Murphy

Stella Caoimhe (kee-va) Murphy is the youngest daughter of Sir Henry Murphy and Ivory Fleming.

She is a lady-in-waiting to Mary Stuart and a wife to Lord William Maitland. She has an affair with Francis II, one of Mary's lovers and bares a child that they name Shawn-Henry Maitland.

The affair results in her beheading by order of Elizabeth I, Queen of England.

Before that, though she is married to Bill Maitland but he gets stabbed and thrown out of a window, leaving her to mourn.