| | | Type | Year Published |
| Whaley, Annemarie Koning | Mary Stuart Queen of Scots: her movement from knowledge to wisdom as seen in her writings | Thesis | 1991 |
| Whitaker, John | Mary queen of Scots vindicated | Book | 1790 |
| White, Allan | Queen Mary's Northern Province | Journal Article | 1987 |
| Wiesener, Louis | Marie Stuart et Jacques VI: Cinq lettres inédites de Marie Stuart | Journal Article | 1867 |
| Wiley, W. L. | Mary, Queen of Scots, in France | Book Section | 1977 |
| Wilkinson, A. | Mary Queen of Scots and the French Connection | Journal Article | 2004 |
| Wilkinson, Alexander | Mary Queen of Scots and French public opinion, 1542-1600 | Book | 2004 |
| Wilkinson, Alexander S. | Mary Queen of Scots in the polemical literature of the French Wars of Religion | Thesis | 2001 |
| Wilkinson, Alexander S. | Mary, Queen of Scots and French Public Opinion, 1542-1600 | Book | 2004 |
| Wilson, Jean | Why Fotheringhay? The Location of the Trial and Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots | Journal Article | 2004 |
| Wilson, Mark Frederick | Protestant Polemic in the 1570s: Elizabethan Responses to the Northern Rising, the Papal Bull and the Massacre of St Bartholomew's Day | Thesis | 2014 |
| Winn, Colette H. | The Martyr Queen: Constructions of Identity in Mary Stuart's Last Letters | Journal Article | 2016 |
| Wood, Charles T. | The First Two Queens Elizabeth, 1464-1503 | Book Section | 1992 |
| Woodacre, Elena (Ellie) | The Queen's Marriage; Matrimonial Politics in Pre-Modern Europe | Book Section | 2012 |
| Woodward, Jennifer | The 1587 Funerals of Mary Queen of Scots | Book Section | 1997 |
| Wormald, Jenny | The Usurped and Unjust Empire of Women: A Review Article | Journal Article | 1991 |
| Wormald, Jenny | Mary Queen of Scots: a Study in Failure | Book | 1988 |
| Wormald, Jenny | Mary Queen of Scots: Politics, Passion and a Kingdom Lost | Book | 2001 |
| Wormald, Jenny | Godly Reformer, Godless Monarch: John Knox and Mary Queen of Scots | Book Section | 1999 |
| Wormald, Jenny | Resistance and regicide in sixteenth-century Scotland: the execution of Mary Queen of Scots | Journal Article | 1993 |
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