FEATURED LADY OF THE DAY AND HER DAD–this lovely little girl wasn’t keen on getting her picture taken on the way in to the Highland Games in Winter Springs Florida this weekend–but daddy persuaded her. Thanks to mom too who unfortunately stayed out of the picture.
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Mary, Queen of Scots: [to Queen Elizabeth I] I might have known you’d come to gloat like this – stealthily, under cover of night. From 1936 Movie: Mary of Scotland
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HONORABLE MENTION:
CELTIC NORSE HERITGE SOCIETY
Patti Patten and Jack Booton founders
www.celticnorseheritagesociety.org
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Title card: 1558 / England and Scotland are torn apart by family and religious wars. Mary Stuart, the Catholic queen of Scotland, is married to the king of France. / When he dies she returns to Scotland to claim her throne and immediately becomes involved in a fight for power with Elizabeth, the Protestant queen of England. This is the story of the fierce struggle between… the rival queens. From Mary Queen of Scotts 1971 Movie
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Look what I found at the SCOTTISH GAMES this weekend
https://twitter.com/FLOutlanderFans?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
https://www.facebook.com/groups/FloridaOutlanderFans
an check out this interesting discussion from a passage from the Outlander book:
I love this picture it’s so definitive of what I love in Jamie and Sam.
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If I could be anything in the world I would want to be a teardrop because I would be born in your eyes, live on your cheeks, and die on your lips. Mary, Queen of Scots
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Suggestion to consider for a possible Adventure:
ORMOND BEACH: CELTIC FESTIVAL
April 16-17
At Rockefeller Gardens
25 Riverside Or. Ormond Beach
4 states of continuous music
Celtic Clans, Vendors, Highland Games, Kid’s Zone, Ethnic Food, Bagpipers
Sat 10 am – 7 pm
Sun 11 am – 5 pm
www.ormondbeachcelticfestival.com
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To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we love, is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness. Mary, Queen of Scots
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Was there ever a woman so star crossed as Mary Stewart.
We have seen ( http://chasingadventureorg.ipage.com/http/chasingadventureorg/2016/01/15/being-brave-enough-to-just-be-unapologetic-for-who-you-are-thats-a-goddess-banks/ ) how at only a few days old her father (wounded in battle with the English) died–some say as much from the disappointment of having a daughter as from his wounds. That her mother reigned as regent for her and that by the time she was a few years old when Henry VIII, her uncle and ruler of the kingdom that Scotland shared the isle with, decided that she should marry his only son Edward to get rid of that bothersome northern place called Scotland.
Then she was pledged as a bride for Francis the future king of France and was at an early age shuffled off to France where she grew to adulthood among the weird, not to mention unhealthy children of the Royal court. I spoke to someone the other day who had been watching Reign and said something about that. I informed him that if Mary’s future husband wasn’t ugly, short and had skin so badly affected that some believed that he had leprosy, then the story was not very accurate. However Mary loved the boy she grew up with, despite all his issues including a permanently runny nose, and a moody and difficult personality.
She did learn multiple languages including Spanish, Italian, Latin and Greek. Acknowledged to be of superior intelligence she also learned all the womanly art including needlework, dancing and played multiple instruments including the harp, lute as well as mastering archery and horsemanship. She grew into a French speaking(it would from hence forward be her main language) backgammon playing young lady who referred to herself as Marie and wore the finest clothes.
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for a Queen who has herself been called Most Christian, and who dies a Catholic, stripped of all her possessions…Mary’s final letter written to her brother-in-law the King of France http://www.elizabethfiles.com/the-execution-of-mary-queen-of-scots-8th-february-1587/4725/#ixzz3xcgbtYTR
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So in 1558 Mary not yet 16 married the short, ugly and a year younger, Dauphin and if you’ll remember before she did so she signed over her kingdom of Scotland to the French line if she were to die childless. Meanwhile back in England, the Catholic Mary had died and the Protestant Elizabeth who had taken the throne, was screaming mad over the French troops on the ground in Scotland.
A little over a year later the reigning king was injured by a ceremonial lance that pierced an eye and his throat–not that’s a bit hard to believe it was just an accident…but I’m always suspicious so….He died, mercifully 10 days later after suffering unbearable pain and the young couple took the throne. and there were also family issues–on Mary’s mom and Francis’ mom feuding on whom would influence the royal government the most–we’re taking real mother-in-law issues. Oh and a young man showed up at the wedding a Lord Darnley–then 12 but you’ll see him later.
The Reign lasted a bit over a year, then Francis developed an ear problem in November 1560 and as the infection spread to his brain and like his father he suffered greatly but a bit longer…finally dying in December never reaching his 17th birthday and leaving Mary a childless widow at about 18 and his younger brother Charles, a 10 year old king and his mother as regent and Mary no place as the Mother in Law finally (as usual) got the last word “OUT”.
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What will my enemies not say, that for the safety of her life a maiden queen could be content to spill the blood even of her own kinswoman? (Elizabeth to another Parliamentary Delegation (1586),
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She was 18 when her enforced mourning ended, and with a large French dowry. There was no Kings readily looking for a wife. Lord Darnley was available, a nice, English Catholic boy with almost as strong a claim to the British throne as Mary’s. But Mary wasn’t interested (trust me the kid’s not done yet).
Finally Mary considered pretty despite the fact that she was 6 foot tall, which is much taller than the average man, and who spoke French as her primary language returned to Scotland without a good conduct by Elizabeth I.
She made landfall at Leith, but arrived early and had to be put up at a merchant’s home until the Lords arrived at the appointed time….What a shock the country must have been. Poorer than France (or England), even the nobles dress drably compared to France. I’ve been there and the castles were largely much less ornate and the country side less populated. Most of Europeans of the time, while they felt they were brave warriors, also found them uncouth and lawless, hostile to strangers and inordinately quarrelsome….and I say this as a Scot myself (really that was my grandmother’s clan name Scott and there are 4 or five other clans at least in my background, including my father’s Swann which comes under the Gunn). All this added to the fact that Mary had not been in the country since she was young child.
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Tomorrow we’ll look at Mary’s return home to the country now largely Protestant, at least in the low lands. And that was just the beginning….I will look at Mary’s dealing with men, love, murder and much more tomorrow.
More often than not it was the maid’s cheerful voice that woke her, along with the hand on Mary’s shoulder and the delicious smells wafting from the breakfast tray.”
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