Mary Queen of Scots: The Red Queen (FULL MOVIE) | Documentary, Women's History, Royal, Biography
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- Опубліковано 1 лют 2017
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This feature documentary takes you on a journey of discovery across the majestic landscapes of Scotland, England and France to find the femme fatale behind the legend. Piece together the Queen of Scots’ turbulent relationship with her cousin Elizabeth I of England, which ultimately proved to be Mary’s downfall under the executioner’s axe.
The story of Mary Queen of Scots is as alive with passion, drama and political intrigue and can also be seen in the 2018 blockbuster movie Mary Queen of Scots starring Saoirse Ronan, Margot Robbie, and Jack Lowden.
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Anyone else binge watching these type of videos in corona virus quarantine? 😔🥺
Jenny 🙋
Lol Jenny that's why I came to add a comment.
They would've declared James had died from Covid 19.
I am but worn from daze of trucking santizer, tp etc.
I absolutely AM binging during lockdown!😂
I don't even know what I'm watching anymore
Reign from Netflix brought me here. I can't get enough of it especially of Francis II and Mary .
Lorelyn Dumaug Me too! CW & it's producer's did a GREAT job in producing an A+ Quality series & sparking flames to revisit history!💚💚💚
supernumery I’ve read before that Mary and Francis were quite fond of each other and actually cared for one another .
supernumery well no one will ever know exactly how one truly felt for another
A part of me died inside when Francis died
Are you in the US it’s not on Netflix in Canada but I love it so I bought it on DVD
I love reign, i was interested in the history of mary queen of Scotland,i think adelaine kane did a beautiful job in portraying her,.
Fun fact: Adelaide is actually a distant descendant of Mary Stuart through her father's side.
Isobel Duncan no she’s not
Did they show her axing in the show?
@@meganpearl914 actually using easy simple statistic and logic, its probably to say that we all are(or many of us may be) somewhat related to her...as to any other monarch in europe from over 300 to 400 years or more ago.
Europe moved a lot, but it kinda stayed together/interchanged family/lineage wise. So everyone with european lineage (at least one european ancestor) today is probably releated to at least one monarch of europe.
You may not know the link, but the math just adds up that way.
The show was historically, grossly inaccurate but it was very visually and audibly stimulating. I loved the costumes, the scenery, the music etc. It was a very bold and beautiful interpretation of her history.
I came here bc I just finished watching Reign so I wanted to know more about the history behind it
Monzerrat Garibaldi I'm here for the same reason.
Monzerrat Garibaldi
This is THE go to biography about Mary, just the beginning and how the author describes her execution will give you chills!!!
www.amazon.com/Queen-Scots-True-Life-Stuart-ebook/dp/B00L0M73TI/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1498834193&sr=8-3&keywords=Mary+queen+of+scots
Monzerrat Garibaldi same why did it have to end 😭😭
peyton arden omg I was shocked I didn't know this was the finale season 😭 they rushed it too much ! I loved reign , I wish Francis could've lived longer
Reign has so many mistakes and is very inaccurate. It changed her relationships around and left out a lot . Also made her much younger at certain times in the show when she was a lot older . It's good you took the time to learn more about her. So you will get the real history .
I've spent a great deal of time watching youtube docs, some over and over, to learn and understand the history of England, assorted monarchs, complicated by many wars. So interesting, I can't get enough.
power hungry monarchs and their allies!
More like French !
There's something about royalty or other certain subjects in documentaries that is so fascinating that you can't help but be drawn to it.
My fellow kindred spirits.
I know it. I can't stop, and I don't care. I love them.
I love that unlike all other Royalty , she followed her own ideas and heart.... But very sadly It cost her everything.
I agree. Mary was not a great queen but she was a great woman. She followed her heart, yes, but she was also a bit foolish in her decisions, especially with Bothwell. Who knows about Darnley? I wouldn't condemn her if she was complicit in his murder.
She was the first to advocate for religious tolerance. John Knox wouldn’t tolerate that. There had to be a “winner” so to speak. He was a large part of her downfall. If i were her, I would have had him taken care of right away. And, I would have married the king of Sweden, or any other king.
@@CKing-388 Exactly! I'm confused as to why she didn't have him quietly and anonymously assasinated. That would have surely solved the problem.
Knox had a lot of power and influence to just "take care of him" would caused a major civil war in Scotland
I wouldn't even call her a good queen when it's all herself she thinks about not jer country
She was very much ahead of her time in so many ways. , now she is getting regocnition, movies, tv shows about her and Francis.
Long live queen Mary
May she Rest In Peace and ease with those she loves.
You said that if they met they would have been good friends.
I remember watching a movie where they had such a scene showing the meeting.
This meeting was a disaster. They were so different in character. Mary (0played superbly by Vanessa Redgrave) played her as an active woman while Elizabeth was her usual shrewd and causeus self. They ended up quarreling.
This was fictional of course but possibly true. It is known that Elizabeth was reluctant to condemn a near relative and fellow queen to death and during the execution was seen to be upset.
As I was watching this movie there were two nuns sitting behind me shaking their heads and tut tiring at certain scenes.
She was always painted bad...which I can understand why.
She was an idiot, slapper
Francis? She was literally married to him for one year lol
That's silly. She has always rcvd recognition.
First time I have ever heard her referred to as the Red Queen. Her life was filled with drama and sorrow. May she Rest in Peace.
Bloody Mary was her more apt and popular name.
off with their heads? heard of that one?
@@DBEdwards that was her cousin, Mary I of England, thanks to her burning 300+ protestants. So ... Mary Stuart wasn't that murderous (except for her idiot husband)
@@armygirl85fuckhitler74 Mary Tudor was called bloody mary. Mary Queen of Scots was called the red Queen because it was the colour of her gown she was beheaded in. The colour of martyrs. Please know the facts before commenting.
@@mrssmith3872 thanks for the post, have only just realised there were 2 Mary's.. smh
Just wondering if you could confirm.. Bloody Mary was Henry the 8ths daughter & Elizabeth's half sister... and the red queen was their cousin who was executed in a red gown?
Her son later became King James VI and hence ended the Tudor era, so that was something
Was gunna watch that next.
Elizabeth Granted
Yeah
That's the Stuart dynasty!
Charles 1st, didn't like Scotland
Was virtually a ' non visitor, unknown to the Scots'
Have you read wee ditty about Charles 2nd?
And--- Bonnie Prince Charlie, soon ' bolted' back to France when things not going his way!
He had no loyalty to the Scottish people,
Just feathering his own nest
So typical of royals and government
I've always been puzzled as to why my fellow Scots romanticised him!
Yeah, we had problems with the German royals
But becoming Jacobite shouldn't have been the answer
Made things much worse for Scotland and our heritage
Wolfman73 : you mean her homosexual son (nothing against homosexuality) who was disfigured, a liar, and forced male nobles to do sexual favors for him if they needed something and then not grant it anyway.... yes hooray. Not. And killed dozens just for the tax money and their property, almost forgot that!
Lorraine Thomson the “German royals” are descendants of James VI’s daughter George I of England was effectively a branch of the Stuart dynasty. It just happened that the families were fighting for the succession as per usual.
At the very end, Mary said the last word!
I think most people are here bc of reign lol
Ariana Pirzad nope I didn’t know there was reign before searching for mary queen of Scott’s I actually started watching monarch videos since rona started 🤙🏼
Nah she’s a very famous figure
Don't has teh Flix 😢😢😥
Yes it made me so curious.
Not me 😅
dude Elizabeth didn't hate Mary because she had a "pretty face". Elizabeth was vain, certainly, but she was terrified of killing Mary because killing an anointed sovereign suggests that all anointed sovereigns (like herself) were fair game. She didn't want to be responsible for shedding her own family blood either. Childish to suggest otherwise.
Elizabeth was envious of mary the rivalry elizabeth had with mary was like henry the eights rivalry with francis king of france. elizabeth did not want to kill mary cause of not wanting to kill a soverien ruler but also because mary was her cousin
@Frank Perino elizabeth was extremely pretty when she was young. However elizabeth had small pocks and she did use heavy makeup to cover the scars heavy lead based foundation. Also elizabeth had rotten teethwhen she was middle aged due to her love of sweets. She used to pack poltices and put them in the cheeks of her mouth. Elizabeth was increadably clever and intellegent but she had her fathers temper. Also speculated Elizabeth was not a virgin she may have produced a few illigitamate children from various lovers. She may have had the body of a woman but she ruled like a true king.
Given the bloody history of the English monarchy, I truly doubt it. They were a known vicious and ruthless monarchy. History speaks for itself.
She did kill her tho
Branwyn Harrison - Elizabeth wanted assassinate Mary because she wanted the Scottish thrown and Elizabeth also wanted to kill Francis king of France because she wanted to some how rule France and mary the next king of France Charles because once Francis was gone she could Mary Charles cause Francis couldn’t condemn their marriage
As a scot, I will always love Mary Queen Of Scots. She's forever in my heart & mind.
It must be so wonderful to have all that history around you. I want to visit one day.
Not in mine🤪
@@Haymarket47 You don't care much for Mary Queen of Scots?
@@Haymarket47 Mary wasn't prepared to deal with all the issues looming in Scotland. She had a half brother, 1st Earl of Moray, that was mad b/c she got the tittle and he didn't. He had a very powerful Grandfather (Earl of Mar 5th Lord John Erskine) that tried to keep them from each other's throats. But in the end, Mary just couldn't stop herself from making blunders.
She was wise to advocate a policy of religious tolerance
If you want the real history on Mary, Queen of Scots, pick up the books "The True Life of Mary Stuart" by John Guy, a historian who isn't biased in his opinion on Mary and did tremendous research on her from her birth to her death.
Another good non-fiction book on Mary is "Mary Queen of Scots" by Antonia Fraser, the classic of all classic biographies.
Last but not least -- if you don't mind a double biography -- is "Elizabeth & Mary: Cousins, Rivals, Queens" by Jane Dunn. While it's well-researched and does catalogue both womens' lives from their births to their deaths, the author, Jane Dunn, is more than a bit biased towards Elizabeth. Sometimes it's a bit too much and she has been criticized for it, but it's still a good read. It was my first book on the subject years ago, but I recommend John Guy or Antonia Fraser's book over this one unless you want a bit of Liz and Mary in one book.
Good novels on Mary for people who don't mind a bit of artistic license is (the best of them all first):
1.) "Mary, Queen of Scotland & The Isles" by Margaret George
2.) "The Captive Queen of Scots" by Jean Plaidy
3.) "Crown of Thistles: The Fatal Inheritance of Mary Queen of Scots" by Linda Porter
they are all biased... especially if they used any documented research because the history was written by her foes, impossible to know with Mary - truly
Thanks will check them out.
Great reference info. I’ve been looking for more biographic documentaries and/or books about her life, her lifelong passive aggressive feud with Elizabeth I and her eventual execution. I’ll check out your book recommendations. Very interesting video and your comments are much appreciated.
Thanks for sharing. Appreciate it.
John Guy is Australian (who the public will not know of) and Fraser is an English 'bodice ripper'
biographer. The best source is the Scots historian - Michael Lynch
Mary Stewart: Queen in Three Kingdoms (1988)
www.amazon.co.uk/Mary-Stuart-Queen-Three-Kingdoms/dp/0631152636
Mary was six days old when she was declared Queen, not nine months old.
Nine days old.
She was Queen at 6 days old, but crowned when she was 9 months. Inaccurate as this documentary is, they did manage to get that bit right.
@@jcp100 you don't need to call people names. most ppl do not know royal coronation rituals.
I think it's just absolutely amazing that they can even remotely get accuracy of dates in age are so far back
Jackson Purtell And you are a nasty piece of work!
Poor Mary, her life was a series of one bad thing after another. She lost so much in her life. And I was horrified to hear how she was killed. She couldnt even get a clean death. How awful
Love this channel. Like some of the other commenters here I was interested in more due to Netflix
Reign. Great info without RIDICULOUS fluff and innuendo.
Keep these interesting straightforward docs coming. Thanks so much
for posting.
First time I've heard of Queen Mary of Scots had twins
Miscarriage...fathered by Bothwell.
I knew she had premature twins but I'm not 97% sure that they were not her husband because he was cheating on her right after they got married and she was already pregnant with James. She busted him and the Nobles busted him and when confronted he was drunk and hostile. After his hostility she wouldn't be physical with him and then she found out she was pregnant. She had plenty of time after that to say no to him about being physical and I don't know if they ever were again because she noticed that he was getting sores on his body. Back then it was so obvious because they didn't have a cure for it. Henry died but he would have died a year or two later from syphilis anyway because he was already going nuts.
by Bothwell
It was a rumour, never publicly confirmed.
It was documented. Their father was James Hepburn.
I was born a Jamaican and I am happy that I have bit of Scottish ancestry. I found these videos helpful.
I’m here because of Reign
Lilli L'amour Me too sis. I loved it. I'm convinced one of my past lives was in the Victorian era!
Lilli L'amour yes
Lilli L'amour me too
Mary Stuart was not the Victorian era: that would be during the reign of Queen Victoria, not Mary Queen of Scotts.
The show Reign was a horrible historical depiction. Awful.
@@angelaerwin1589 I know it's more entertaining than educate yourself on this
I am so in love with Reign which brought me here.. I love Queen Mary bc of Adelaide and also Toby,. Megan follows have molded the character well Which makes us so addictive. 😍
@Elizabeth Frantes haha! I neither
believe the fictions nor history. I just watch and take it as a normal entertainment. I am not here to concern about who likes or not, so thank you.
Jocelyn Carter: This story was really interesting to me. It seem like Queen Mary had it rough since her first husband had died.
She did!! Mary Queen of Scots and her first husband grew up together from the time she was five and he was four until he died of an ear infection a month before his 17th birthday. He also died 3 days before Mary's 18th birthday!! It was a horrible tragedy and they had been rolling for a year-and-a-half and prior to that he was the heir, Dauphin & Mary was the Dauphine. Francis II got an ear infection and whose brain swelled which was what caused him to die in December 1559. So sad because they had been together for 15 years almost and just throwing up and they were so close. It was more than love because they were really family and I can imagine being that young and growing up in France and then knowing you had to go off and grow your own country. I don't know if Mary would have met someone else that she would have fell in love with after Francis died and I think she was just looking for a baby maker when she met Henry and he was definitely attractive. She found out he was a cheater and she wouldn't have anything to do with him after that. Henry was a drunk and Henry Donnelly abusive and wanted her to name him King matrimonial and Mary Queen of Scots said " Noooo!". He have an ego problem and he felt in Superior to her and how she named him King matrimonial he could have had her killed and taken her thrown away. Mary was far too intelligent for him and he was used to Charming other women but he wasn't going to do that to her at all. Mary was something that Queen Elizabeth never was and she would go into battle with people and actually fight with a sword unlike Queen Elizabeth. The movie Mary Queen of Scots is a little okay but not as accurate as I wished it were. Mary Queen of Scots didn't look anything like that and she had auburn hair not strawberry blond. the new movie made her look ugly in an effort to meet Queen Elizabeth was beautiful and I've never thought Elizabeth was beautiful. Queen Elizabeth the first looks like a porcelain doll
We bow to both catherine de medici and mary queen of scotts🔥
Yessa! Both of them were feisty and Mary lived over in Feance for 15 or 16 years. After having been practically raised by Catherine de Medici, & Mary Queen of Scots being her clever brilliant strong-willed self anyway, I do think that Mary could have had Queen Elizabeth poisoned if she realky wanted. She could manage to get men to do things for her that were unbelievable just because she was a nice person and because she was so pretty.
@@montrelouisebohon-harris7023 Queen Catherine had minimal influence on Mary. King Henry's mistress was all-important, and Mary paid much more attention to her than to Queen Catherine, who was actually of little influence in Henry's court. Of course, she got even when Henry died and then Francis, and she was regent for her next son.
Amen
@@montrelouisebohon-harris7023 Its a pity that de Medici does not get the recognition that she deserves
@@susanmorgan8833 Mary herself called Catherine de Medici "daughter of merchants"
Congrats, one of the most unbiased and well documented documentary about Mary that I've ever seen. It is way above those BBC Mary's biographies that slandered her and misled so many people in regard to her real personality and life circumstances. Yet, there are still some essential points that are missed: 1)everything that happened in Scotland (Rizzio's assasination - which was in fact an assasination attempt against Mary, Darnley's assasination etc) was skilfully mastered by England, via the treacherous Scottish lords; 2) Elisabeth had no right to judge and imprison Mary; 3) Mary's correspondence was massively forged by Walsingham&co; 4) Bothwell suffered a hideous death in Denmark; 5) Mary acted with great and remarkable courage and dignity throughout her trial. Anyway, thank you!
Queen Mary of Scots. The queen of my heart !
Reign on Netflix is so historically incorrect, but makes for fun watching despite it.
its actually pretty correct
No, it is not.
Maddie Mcnaughton no it’s pretty inaccurate.
@@maddiemcnaughton4880 bit really...mary was 5ft11 and had light complexion. she was a giant in the era standard. she was not at all the small brunette girl depicted in the series
I didn't think it was that far off
She's my 14th GreatGrandmother..So glad to see this Doc.
Whaaat ? How is that possible?
You shouldn't need to read a documentary. If this your family you should have someone to give you the story in person, nothing fabricated
I say Mary Stuart's choice in men led to her downfall
@Elizabeth Frantes Did you check out comment on close to the end of Next to Kin episode of Walking with Beasts?
I don’t doubt she was forced or coerced
David Tinkle.There were many reasons. 2 many Scot nobles conspiring w/England , Dis-harmony among the Clans & who they were loyal 2. Her being a Catholic, she didn't kill protestants, Like Bloody Mary / Catholics like QE1. John Knox stirring up the religious divide, even tho he was originally a priest, & it was 2 bad the French troups returned 2 France.
Factually this documentary is very interesting, but sadly misses much of the dynamics between Mary and Elizabeth which is, I think, one of the most fascinating aspects of Mary's life. Elizabeth was not just a hostile neighbour who ignored and then executed Mary - she was forever torn because Mary was, on one hand, both her closest living relative and a fellow monarch (who should therefore always be protected whenever rebellious lord and peasants plot treason), yet on the other hand her nemesis in the form of a Catholic queen with a claim to the English throne arguably better than her own.
Well, Mary's claim more distant
@@leanie5234 Elizabeth was closer to the line of succession - and even named a successor by Henry VIII - but many Catholics still considered her a bastard and therefore illegitimate
Elizabeth was a bastard therefore Mary Stewart was the true heir to the English throne
And they actually never met face to face.
This is extremely well done. Thank you.
she is my queen of Scotland I am proud to have her as queen of Scotland because I am Scottish no matter what I lived in Scotland.
Charlotte Fenner I would love her as my Queen as well if I was Scottish
Mathieu Gratton wow no one cares
you should be. your Queen didnt desirve this end at all.
She's dead tho and her son took over anyways.
moon h I am proud of who I am
Excellent! Thank you for posting, very informative. I really enjoyed watching.
Elizabeth knew exactly what she was signing. She knew exactly what she was doing. She just refused to take responsibility for what she did.
I hate her
Elizabeth knew what she was doing but she hated doing it. Once the Babington plot was discovered, her advisors pressured Elizabeth to behead her as the threat was now closer than ever. It took her several months to sign the warrant and she receded into seclusion for months after the death.
They are enotombed side by side
Rumor has it that she was forced by her own council to sign that paper
Mary signed her own death warrant when she fled to England instead of France. That was just stupid.
this is a very very good presentation, good narrator, good research of a complex history well told in less than 60 minutes. Well done.
I love my history and i love watching reign over and over again and i find her life story so fascinating
Bethany Connell o
I loved this feature! I especially appreciated the explanations of terms and the "whys" of certain actions that were taken. Sometimes I had been aware of those actions, but unaware of the reasons. Also, to an American, it seems like the English and Scottish couldn't find more than a few names: Mary, James, Elizabeth, Catherine, etc. It's all so confusing! This video made it so much more understandable. I also appreciated the explanation of the two spellings of Stewart/Stuart. Thank you very much for such an interesting and enlightening program.
Poor Meghan is being treated like a modern day Anne Boleyn people ate her for no reason
@April Gosa There is a list that wraps around the world, proving why harry and his wife are the most hated people on the planet, and rightly so. Judgement Day is going to be awful for this treacherous and traitorous couple!
All this suffering and life of torture mostly because of religion. Again...
No the main problem was how to worship God their faith was in the right place.
Exactly, faith vs religion. The emphasis is on how to worship and going through the motions vs real faith in God and Jesus. People’s interpretation of a religion vs pursuing a real relationship with Jesus is why these things happen. It’s not because of Christianity
Wait, what are you talking about? I really don't understand your point so I don't get it why you are all defensive. Mary didn't wanna help Elizabeth because she feared she would loose her throne as Mary was catholic. On the other hand Mary was hated by her protestant people. Nothing more simple than that. I mean we are talking about XVI century here. Religion and faith don't go together. Faith is a pretext for power, welth and control and this game works really well in this period of european history.
Coccinella were agreeing I’m saying that religion and faith don’t coincide. Faith and a relationship with God is very different than religion.
Religion is still a death threat in some Countries. But not of any importance in Canada or the USA where you can believe freely in any faith. But I do see trouble ahead in Canada. Laws are slowly being changed to accommodate one religion. What changes? Helmet law changed to allow the turban not to be taken off when riding a motorcycle. Also, women not to remove their veils for photo identification. I don’t know what the hell our Government is doing??? Is Trudeau running scared? I hope the faceless photo identification is rejected by all other Countries.
In my opinion from all that I’ve read and studied… Elizabeth never really wanted her to be killed.
No but her son sure didn’t mind
Elizabeth didn't want to set a precedent for deposits and murdering anointed female monarchs. Elizabeth must have despised Mary, as Mary was a true thorn in her side throughout her reign.
I'm Scottish. QQEII is NOT QEII to us. She is only the first Queen of Britain. Elizabeth, the virgin Queen, Elizabeth I was never Queen of Scotland.
You don't know much history, do you? Elizabeth II is a descendant of Mary, Queen of Scots and her son James VI of Scotland and James I of England. Elizabeth I had no children, therefore, no heirs.
Read the act of succsession, not only does it infamously decrees that a cathollic cannot be king or queen of Britian but each of the kingdoms of England and Scotland should recognise each others monarchs, hence why we see the present queen as Elizabeth II and if the English had the balls in the 1930's should have crowned the first born son of George V as david III instead of chickening out and going for Edward VIII but he screwed it up anyway by marrying Simpson. If the present prince William had the balls to follow what his wife wanted the present prince George would have had his second name ( Alexander ) as his first name, but of course the powers that be in England could never tolerate this as he would have to be Alexander IV even though there has never been a king Alexander of England, but there has been 3 in Scotland....... the very thought of an anionted King of Engerland being numericaly demoted by previous Scottish Kings is quite unthinkable!!!!!!!
I just read about this, so who is the real Queen and why is Queen Elizabeth living a lie when her family tripped up the line of who really should be in line to be the queen.. how does the people live under the ruling of a queen that really shouldn't be the queen at all?
@cubomania3 I wouldn't call her all those names.. But it is very disheartening that people aren't being told the truth...
So who is the real queen and why hasn't she taken her place?
Absolutely amazing!! Love it
Excellent narration, really enjoyed this walk through history. Thank you.
What they haven't told here is how after Mary's husband, the young king died, her mother in law didn't like her and wanted rid of her - she had ambitions for her own children. Mary was pressured to leave the French court and had no choice but to return to Scotland. And later, when imprisoned by Elizabeth, the French royals stole most of Mary's properties in France and kept the income from them , so that she was always desperately short of money to pay her servants and for necessary items, like clothing etc. She unpicked old dresses and other items in order to sew her embroideries - one of the few pleasures and leisure activities. Her imprisonment was made stricter as the years went by, her letters to friend and France curtailed, and her reading materials restricted. She was ill and exhausted when she fled to England, having suffered the stillbirth of twins.
I didn't know that Mary still had actual properties in France? You mean land and holdings? I know her half brother stole her Black Pearls in Scotland and other things I guess.
@@earlofmar7987 Yes, she inherited some lands from her mother in France, and later she married the young French heir to the throne and was given dower lands and jewels and rich expensive gowns and all sorts of valuable gifts. As queen if France she was awarded more valuable lands with income and they were hers to keep for life, even after she left France. Of course she had estate managers and they are the ones who later ripped her off and stopped sending the income she was due, and some of her lands were taken back by the French royal family. Nobody cared about her once she returned to Scotland and she was powerless to do anything about the thefts.
@@juanitarichards1074 Ah, yes....I didn't even think about her mother's side of the family. She should have just left Scotland and returned to France. She could have had a happy life living in France. And it's funny now that you mention it, we never hear about that. Thanks for bringing that to my attention. Always helps to fill in the blanks.
@@earlofmar7987 Her poor mother felt it was her duty to stay and rule Scotland after her husband the king died, just days after baby Mary was born. Plus once you were widowed there was no place for you in the French royal family......too many matriarchs competing to be regents for their royal sons who might one day be king. If they had cared about young Mary they could have found another husband for her in France, since she was left a teenage widow but it would have meant her stepping down in rank, from a queen to a duchess or less and that was unthinkable in the French royal family, so they encouraged Mary to go back to Scotland and be queen there.
@@juanitarichards1074 Mary knew about the Reformation and she was find with that, but the Nobel's weren't. In my search in trying to understand the break-down, I found that her half brother was the Earl of Mar's, daughter's son. James V, had a favorite mistress and her name was Margaret Erskine. She had James Stuart, Earl of Moray. So, they were all related. Even though my 10th Grt. Grandfather, John Erskine, Earl of Mar, actually brought a priest so she could have Mass, the other Nobel's disagreed. Then I see John Knox has been to see Lizzie. Then he's at Stirling Castle with the Earl of Mar, after the birth of James I. Things are just really continuous. Do you think there was support for the Earl of Moray to be King of Scotland?
The narrator sounds like she's talking to children.
Did she actually say, "You guessed it..." like we're sitting here talking back?
She must be a catholic nun schooling us about Mary
yeah you said it's like narrating to a 5-year old.
Is it a computer voice? Whatever it is, it's so off- putting I gave up after two minutes, with the mispronunciation of "being" as "bein' ".
Totally agree about the narrator's style - and I do not like it at all! The background music emphasizes this. But Mary's fate isn't a cozy fairy tale for children. I prefer a far more matter-of-fact style!
Unfortunately this fairy-tale narrator style, or the equally annoying overenthusiastic school-marm style has become more common . And it totally distracts me. distracts
Well written and narrated, a most interesting documentary. Thank you for putting it here. I really enjoyed it.
Wow!! Superbly done! ❤️. I watched Reign and though it was said it was not true to life, it sure seems as though it was!
I also just finished watching Reign & wanted to know more about this mysterious Queen.
I hate when people say things like, “this is incorrect.” “I’ve read in, “ no one will truly know what happened if they weren’t there to observe. So stop bashing historians from telling what they’ve learned from their sources as you tell what you’ve learned from yours.
Yes! This is one of my pet peeves as well! Very few statements shouldn’t start with ‘I think/believe’. Beliefs are not facts, no matter how strongly held. And the lack of conclusive info is part of why it’s so fascinating to speculate about the possibilities anyway. :)
Love the powerful intro and powerful music .... brilliant production...
I love learning about this!
Jessica Belford 9
I did not realize until about 20 years ago how much I loved and wanted to know more about English history. You cannot make some of the stuff up. Murders, coups, usurpings, sexual issues and the profound changes. I find the subject I want say Edward II, Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII and then read EVERYTHING by many different authors. Eric Ives, Dr. John Guy, Jaspar Ridley, Desmond Seward, Starkey. I love it!
monarchy & theology holds the power ,nothing else matters: we know little of the common human of that era.
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How tragic and sad. I never knew this story and my heart is broken.
Loved this video, so interesting and beautifully narrated. The music was hauntingly beautiful as well. Wonderful!
I cannot get enough of these stories.
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Very informative,factual and entertaining. Loved it
it's so sad Mary's son James was old and brought up believing his mother was a adulterous muderer.
may Mary & James rest easy.
We will never know what he believed. He would frequently ask, why he did not look like his mother.
They found a skeleton of a newborn child in the walls of Edinburgh Castle from that time period.
@@shellc6743 never heard about that. Who do they think is was ?
Edit: okay, I looked this up....sounds like a fabricated tale built upon a mysterious finding. There is absolutely nothing connecting the bones to Mary, and it was never a complete skeleton (no skull or pelvis or any of the bones most likely to survive the longest). Also, Mary was a young woman...why would anyone switch out the babies ? SHE would certainly never have agreed, and no bunch of Scottish lords would have EVER cooperated to put a changling on the throne.
I think that the bones are a sad mystery, but not a treasonous baby-swap.
@@earlofmar7987 we do know. He refused to help his mother and didn’t like her.
@@leanie5234 We believe, she went into premature labor, due to all the stress. My family, who were sworn to protect her, and the throne, changed out the baby. We believe it was the Earl of Mar's son in all actuality. The baby was then given back to them, and the Earl of Mar's wife was able to breast feed the baby. They reason they did this, was to gain the throne of England.
The "pretty maid all in a row" actually refers to six little girls from Scottish nobility, chosen to grow up with Mary, when she was sent to France as the affianced bride of the Dauphin. This was not only policallly advantageous because it would make Mary queen of France, but got her out of danger from Henry, who desperately wanted Mary to be married to his own son Edward, giving Henry mastery of the entirety of Britain, and was invading and making war in Scotland to get control of Mary, who was about five years old, ( This invasion of Scotlanx is called "The rough wooing") These little girls accompanied Mary to France, and at least one of them was with her for many years. The "cockle shell" was Mary's personal symbol throught her life.
A thoroughly engrossing hour about a fascinating and deadly period of our nations' histories.
So many aspects worthy of further study.
I have always been fascinated by these two Queens. I just watch Mary Queen of Scotts last night. I wanted to refresh on the people surrounding the Queens and watch it again. Such a unique time in our history. I've always wished they could have been friends and closer. They were in such an unheard-of position. Never respected as Kings were.
That's a ridiculously inaccurate movie. It was mainly fiction.
Today Mary Queen of Scots is 476 yrs, 11 m, & 15 d
May she RIP amen.
I have often wondered if the 2 queens had of actually met each other an talked how different history would have turned out
i thought they did meet because Elizabeth kept her as a prisoner and she also ordered the execution🤔 (srry my english is bad)
I don't think they ever met. Not even as small children. When Mary fled Scotland, she tried to get a meeting with Lizzie hoping Lizzie would help her to secure her throne in Scotland but Lizzie kept putting off the meeting.
@@earlofmar7987 Liz too jealous
Apparently they did. Then Elizabeth kept her hostage and then imprisoned her and then had her beheaded.
Im sure they did, but both were Queens and had strong differing views & opinions.
That was about the greatest documentary on Mary Queen of Scotland I've ever seen. Thank you.
Very interesting.. enjoyed your documentary.. Thanks
The 'Mary, Mary' rhyme is actually about Bloody Mary...
No one really knows for certain WHO it was written about.
Elizabeth 1 was extremely intelligent and the idea that she was confused when signing Mary’s death warrant seems to be highly contentious. Thank you for a most enjoyable presentation .
She knew what she was doing as she commented on it. The idea of executing a fellow monarch was so repugnant to Elizabeth that she went into denial
Elizabeth knew what she had to do for her own safety and the safety of her kingdom. She was just severely emotionally conflicted about it.
I've often thought that what Elizabeth SHOULD have done was sign the death warrant, have the scaffold built and then offer a last minute suspension of sentence, to last as long as England remained at peace. Not only would that deny Mary her martyrdom act, but it would essentially make Mary a hostage against any invasion or insurrection to put her on the throne. Who knows? Maybe this WAS Elizabeth's plan, and she was furious because William Cecil ruined it.
Absolutely fabulous. x
Really enjoyed this. Nice easy voice of the orator. Thank you for the upload. Am going to Holyrood and Edinburgh in October. Looking forward to it more now have seen this x
Add Falkland Palace to your list not too far from Loch Leven
Mary, Queen of Scots became Queen when she was six days old. This person needs to get her history correct.
Coronation was when she was 9 months old.
Poor Mary. She was raised in the court of France, which was very sophisticated, elegant, and intellectual. When she arrived in Scotland she encountered unwashed brutes who thought nothing of massacring anyone who annoyed them, as they did Rizzio, he italian companion.
Victor Hazan : Absolutely! She was way over her head. She didn't have a clue how to rule these unrulable men. Opposing religions didnt help. Curious to see how Elizabeth would have fared!
supernumery Exactly. "unwash brutes" my arse. Ugh.
Victor Hazan, the Scottish Court was never a grand affair but it was most certainly not unwashed," King James V was known as a Renaissance King and the Court was just as sophisticated as any other court in Europe. King James V was known as a Renaissance King.
Supernumery, when Mary returned to Scotland the country was only Protestant in name only. The vast majority of the people were still Catholic and despite John Knox's denunciation of the Mass it continued to be celebrated openly throughout the country. The problem was that Mary's brother had banished the Catholic Lords from the Court before Mary came home and he only allowed Protestant Lords access. This furthered the Protestant cause after Mary had been imprisoned and the reformed faith spread, although many areas held firm to the Catholic faith and do so to this day.
Many thanks, narrated beautifully!
Very informative and beautifully narrated.
Thank you
If John Knox were not so spiteful, history for both queens could have been different. He fueled the fires
He was an asshole
I wonder why he was never roped in for treason. If Mary had been tough like Elizabeth and had him legally executed, she would have set a precedent and may be not a lot of people would have messed with her. She wasn't Queen material. Elizabeth was
@@lolaadesina5362 John Knox was too popular and powerful. Mary did not have the strength to take him down....besides, she was not secure on her throne. The Scots did not accept a woman in power...they certainly would not have obeyed her easily. She needed to build a support system around her, but Scottish clans were always naturally mistrustful of each other, if she gave an inch to one family, the others would erupt in violence. Everyone would have been suspicious of her because of her religion. Any small mistake would have been blown up into scandal.
I came here after watching “Mary Queen of Scots” in the theaters yesterday.
I am black myself, and the blacks in the movie made me cringe. loool, the black ambassadors and the black ladies in waiting...Political correctness at its lowest.
Very excellent documentary I wish more were like this.
Excellent documentary!
As a great great great (like.. 15th great) grand daughter of Mary Queen of Scots, I LOVE learning more about her. I am very proud of my Scottish roots. :) Thank you for putting this up!
Neat!
Jealous! I’d have that tattooed on my forehead if I could say the same. :)
Mary Livingston was my 14th great grandmother is how I first got absorbed into Mary Queen of Scots while doing my ancestry.
Also my 14th great grandmother was princess Diana's 14 great aunt.
So fun to find all the nuggets of the past.
I also have my 10th great grandfather was the last tribal chief of my tribe of Native American and was mentioned in John Smith diaries. Also related to Willie Jett of the Lincoln assassination.
I LOVE HISTORY ❤
I dont understand why they start showing the palace of Versailles when they start talking about France. That palace wasnt even built yet when Mary was in france. In fact, France was ruled by a completely different dynasty at that time.
Perhaps they thought it went with the 19th C Russian Orthodox music !!!!!!!!!!!!
and it matches up with the lady in the turquoise 18th C dress
THE FACTS =The palace was not built in the 17th& 18th centurys ,the 16 century was when it was first built there were many additions to it over the centurys . Reaserch!!!
@@michellegordon6586 yes, but it wasn't THE main palace, it was a "Hunting lodge" as I believe Louis XIV, put it before he made it the main palace. besides, this is the Valios line, not the Bourbon line that came after.
Lisa can you reference you sourceI would be i b t interesred in researching . Thanks kindly Michelle
I like the way she narrates the story, congratulations for the narrator. Very nice and very informative and interesting. Thank you
Beautiful narration 😊
Mary refused to attend the trial of her complicity in Darnley's murder, and my recollection of the accounts written about this trial is that it did not make a finding about her involvement. If anyone has come to this video from watching Reign, then I suggest the best biography to read about Mary, Queen of Scots is the biography of the same name written by Antonia Fraser.
Yes, Fraser has written a good biography of Mary, Queen of Scots.
That is my understanding too, that there was no finding about her involvement in the murder of Darnley and that Moray took the forged Casket letters back to Scotland with him. Yet Mary remained prisoner in England.
I did. Reign is a great show and i don't like how they ended it. They could have made more of it, as there passed some time before the arrest and after that. But none the less, i just want to know more about her. google is a great invention for that. You can almost find anything. But this thing here is so boring and very confusing. It is supposed to be about Mary Queen of Scots but most of the time i heard "bloody Mary" or Elizabeth. Don't like this documentary.
the "Casket Letters" were the most damning. Probably altered to make her look guilty. I read Antonia Fraser's wonderful book. This makes me want to read it again!
Joy Brautigam did her lady in waiting forge her signatures?
brontewcat didn’t BOTHWELL have something to do with Darnley’s death ?
The Red Queen was Margaret Beaufort, not Mary Queen of Scots.
Robert Wielgus Mary queen of Scott's wore red at her execution as a martyr
Yes, she was the Queen in Red, but the Red Queen refers to the heiress to the line of Lancaster, as opposed to the Yorks, during the Wars of the Roses.
Mary wasn't a martyr-- she was executed because she was involved in a plot to kill Elizabeth. Religious devotion to the Pope's orders was the rationalization Mary came up with after she'd been caught.
Really, if Elizabeth-- and more to the point, Sir Francis Walsingham-- had been smarter, they would have interrupted the execution at the last minute Stay of Execution. Not a pardon; just a stay, on the grounds that "The Queen is minded to be merciful to her cousin, as long as it does not imperil the safety of her realm."
That would make Mary effectively a hostage against any one-- foreign or domestic-- who sought to liberate her and place her on the throne of England. The Stay would be revoked and Mary would be summarily executed should any uprising or invasion occur... which would make such an attempt hard to justify. She'd likely be dead long before her partisans could extract her.
It also would have denied Mary her little "I am a martyr for my faith!" farce. She would undoubtedly have died of natural causes, denied her moment of stardom before the "theatre of the whole world". She have hated that.
Robert Wielgus : Margaret Beaufort was a cunning, patient woman.
Ur right!
Can’t wait to see the movie coming out soon!
Great Doc! Love it!
as a queen/politician. Elizabeth was brilliant! unfortunately, Mary had a different personality and not strong leadership/political traits which led her to her downfall. It was not easy for a woman to govern as queen/political person. Elizabeth governed as a "man" in those time did...ruthless and strong. She also did not marry to have no man telling her what to do. Sad for both women.
Mary should have had her enemies executed like Elizabeth ... but she wasn't that kind of woman.
"The Red Queen" is a title attributed to Margaret Beaufort, the Red Rose of the House of Lancaster -- not Mary, Queen of Scots.
Innate Nobility Margaret Beaufort was never a queen! She known as the lady in red.
Lady Margaret was the Lady in red.
Mary is called the red queen bc when she went to her execution she took off the black frock to reveal a red dress, and that the dress she was executed in
I'm sure you will also say that Braveheart was William Wallace when it was Robert the Bruce who was historically known as Braveheart.
@@erikatriggs Thank you Erika. You are correct. The color of the Catholic martyr. Obviously we have that fraud Philippa Gregory fans here. I mean the woman doesn't even have a history degree, her degree is in Literature for craps sake.
Excellent documentary. Thank you. Blessings.
Hello Andrea 😊
Nicely done. Thank you
I just finished Reign on Netflix- I loved it!!
Hello Jennifer 😊
Why on earth so many pictures of the palace of Versailles, the little and the big Trianon?. The Louvre, Fontainebleau, Chambord, would have been so much more suitable for this video. Marie-Stuart never saw Versailles. It didn't existed yet. Versailles was under Louis XIII, way after Marie-Stuart. It's kind of distracting, no?
I agree. I suppose that they show that because unfortunately the Protestant heretics hate not only the Church of Christ but they hate Truth and Beauty. That's why they destroyed the beautiful and ancient Churches and monasteries, and also some of the great Scottish castles. Seems to me that the protestant rebellion in England and Scotland was nothing more than a looting operation. Woe to you Mary's dowry and st Andrew's beloved, for shame!
@@KenDelloSandro7565 oh, come on!! Did you just need somewhere to rant about how 'the big, bad protestants" were so mean to those "lovely, sweet, completely innocent Roman Catholics" ? They murdered each other over who was better at worshipping the same imaginary friend. BOTH variations on Christianity were ridiculously bloodthirsty.
@@KenDelloSandro7565 The Catholic heretics were evil. They hated truth and freedom. Have you ever heard of a little thing called the Inquisition? The powerful Catholic Church wanted power and money above all.
Louis XIV built Versailles as we know it.
Amazing amazing this story is fascinating
Beautiful documentary thank you
I've read a bit about Mary, but most of what I read (Tudor history) painted Mary as a shallow flake. This gave a lot more insight as to who she was and the events in her life that influenced her decisions. Thanks for posting it!
I've never subscribed to the 'ahead of his or head time' remark. She was a naive woman simply out of her depth in a highly charged power struggle among the nobility.
That was amazing thank you
The videography here is beautiful.
I've never heard the Queen of Scots referred to as The Red Queen
Mande Loo I was just thinking this myself. When executed Mary wore red, the color of a martyr. Perhaps it's in a reference to that?
There is a Red Queen and a Bloody Mary.
Mary wasn't the red queen it was a different Mary this narrator doesn't know anything
The Red Queen was Margaret Beaufort- mother of Henry VII and grandmother of Henry VIII.
And you shan't ever again.
I am 77 yrs old, just finished the TUDOR series, back and forth from the series to google to see what history really said about Henry's time.
Now i want to watch the other two series - History is exciting, but so glad I did not live in that time.
That piece of music in the start gave me goosebumps.
Awesome documentary.
Mary Stuart is not the bloody mary, Mary Tudor is.
Mary was six days old when she was crowned Queen.
A well narrated documentary. The background music made me feel a bit melancholic.
What an amazing story!