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It was followed by a grand reception provided by the Queen at Holyrood Palace.

Agnes was pregnant when James Stewart rebelled against Mary in 1565 and unable to join him in his subsequent exile in England. Three months after their marriage, following an operation to cure Agnes's eyesight, they sailed for Borneo. [Keith 1955, pp.13, 16-17] The Japanese invading forces landed in Sandakan on .

He had worked in Borneo since 1925, and was based in . [Keith 1955, pp.31-39] They spent eight months there before Agnes and George were sent to in .

After her death in 1588, Agnes was buried in the tomb of James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray, in St Giles Cathedral in Edinburgh.

This biography draws on research first published in "The Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women". Agnes's first child, Henry George Newton Keith, known as George, was born in Sandakan on .

[Keith 1955, p.16]

Life in Borneo

Harry was Conservator of Forests and Director of Agriculture for the government of North Borneo under the Chartered Company, and was also Honorary Curator of the State Museum. The judges voted unanimously for her entry to win, and it was partly serialized in the magazine before being published in November of that year as "Land Below the Wind".

An original and engaging description of a country and people of extraordinary interest. Meanwhile she was bringing up her two surviving daughters.

In January 1572, Agnes married Colin Campbell, who inherited the title of 6th Earl of Argyll the following year and served as Chancellor of Scotland. They had two sons and a daughter, and Agnes was seen as being the power behind the throne, both during both her husband's time as 6th Earl of Argyll and after their son Archibald became 7th Earl of Argyll in 1584.

The Scots Peerage : founded on Wood's ed. of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland; containing an historical and genealogical account of the nobility of that kingdom, Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1904, Vol. I, Archive.org, p. For the first few months of occupation, the Keiths were allowed to stay in their own home. Harry was imprisoned nearby.