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“How much better everything would be, if the two queens were indeed friends! For I see now that the world is not that that we do make of it, nor yet are they most happy that continue longest in it.” Mary, Queen of Scotland
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I do consider a multitude doth make rather discord and confusion than good counsel. Elizabeth I
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“The matter is so horrible and strange, as we believe the like was never heard of in any country…There is nothing remaining, no, not a stone above another, but all carried far away, or dung in dross to the very groundstone..Mary, Queen of Scotland.
So now you have it. Mary who has spent more time in France and is more French than Scottish rules the north of the Island but it is questionable as to how much power she really has. She is of the Tudor line through Henry VIII’s oldest sister who is her grandmum and she has designs on the English throne which she, as a Catholic and ruler of a poor estate is very understoodable. She is reputed to be pretty and she certainly is tall and in the possession of a considerable dowry to assist her in finding a mate as would be appropriate for the former queen of France.
“But I commanded my best friends to permit me to have my own way…”
While Elizabeth is the product of a broken marriage….not to mention spousal abuse (father beheading mother) and near death experiences under the reign of an evil step sister (this woman could be her own fairy tale). She is a Tudor and who will prove to be (though she and the country doesn’t know it yet) the last one (5 total, father, son, grandson, and two granddaughters)of the direct line to set the throne of this isle. She has never been, to my study’s finding, away from England though she (like all the Tudor line) was well read and speaks multiple languages, though English is her prime language. She knows that many fractions wants the throne and she will hold it with the same tenacity that kept her going through years of adversity and walking a fine line between survival and her enemies’ plans to destroy her. She was not beautiful and in fact when she was 29 she contracted small pox–which like all the other adversities in her life she managed to survive, but it left her with pock scars on her face, which I have read, is when she began wearing that ghastly white make up—which hid the scars—but was full of lead. While Mary was 6′ tall (which for me made the Vanessa Redgrave movie on her so good given Vanessa’s height it was for me a great production) Elizabeth was about 5’3 – 5’5″ depending on the source. While Elizabeth had a lot financially to offer her future mate she always managed to avoid the deed and died the Virgin Queen.
I have already joined myself in marriage to a husband, namely the kingdom of England.
(Elizabeth to Parliament)
While Elizabeth had ideas of marrying her reputed lover and “Horse Master” off to Mary, Mary had ideas of herself. Now if you have been reading this on going account (and heaven knows why you would do that, but thanks my dears if you have) you might remember a Lord Darnley has popped up on several occasions.
She finally notice this persistent courtier Henry Stewart, Lord Darnley: Henry was 3 years and 364 days younger (his birthday being Dec. 7, hers Dec. 8). He came from a wealthy, family in Yorkshire (England) who was spoiled and doted on he–and he also came from ancestors with blood ties to both Scottish and English royal blood lines. Reputedly handsome and tall (they actually measured his femur–do not ask me where they got it I do not want to know) and he was reputedly between 6’1″ and 6’3″ (average height for a man was 5’6″) which made him perfect for Mary.
Despite the fact that he had alienated her brother Lord Moray, upset Elizabeth as their claim (together) to both thrones was very impressive and very Catholic, the marriage was carried out by a Mary too infatuated with the slick exterior to see the problems with her new husband. .But the honeymoon didn’t last long as Darnley was in fact spoilt, wilful, immature and grossly uncouth and those were some of his better points, as he was also ruthless, vengeful and vicious and I could go on and on. After the marriage Elizabeth began to support and encourage Moray against the rightful queen.
And things went bad to worse. Darnley, use to getting what he wanted, was upset when Mary would not give the crown matrimonial which would put him in charge if Mary died childless. Then there was Rizzo, an Italian secretary who was one of Mary’s confidents and a trusted advisor. Mary though was occupied with other things including a pregnancy which further alienated Darnley who now realized he would never rule once the child was born…then came the bad blood and even some bitter gossip that Rizzo and not Darnley was the father. A plot was hatched by Darnley’s fraction to execute Rizzo–it was Darnley’s insistence that it be done in Mary’s presence. (interestingly my favorite religious figure Knox was aware and condoned the murder in advance). On March 9, 1566 (beware the ides of) Mary was held by her husband and manhandled despite her pregnant state while Rizzo was stabbed 56 times.
Eventually he turned back to Mary who was being held a virtual captive by the hostile lords until she was rescued by a border laird Bothwell. Eventually she reconciled or pretended, with Darnley to and her pregnancy came to term and she bore a son James. Darnley continue with self indulgence and a loose life style and contracted syphilis and a little less than a year from the murder of Rizzo Darnley’s residence–the Old Provost’s Lodging was blown up–however he was found outside, untouched by the explosion but dead none-the-less resulting in a political scandal and debates now hundreds of years old on exactly who was responsible for the murder of the Queen’s unsuitable mate.
Tribulation has been to them as a furnace to fine gold – a means of proving their virtue, of opening their so-long blinded eyes, and of teaching them to know themselves and their own failings”. (Mary Queen of Scots)
If Hollywood had been responsible for this story thing couldn’t have been more eventful. Mary is accused of much. Her son James comes under her half-brother’s control (from now on he shows little interest in his mother until he comes to his full power (when she was executed he did protested it to Elizabeth, but it did not effect his friendship with her) when he has her body brought from her lowly burial place to London where she is put in one of the most elaborate tombs that Westminster Abbey even knows). She is kidnapped by Bothwell (there is two sides of whether he was truly her abductor or not) and eventually she marries him and they raise a rebellion that fails. Bothwell would eventually escape Scotland, only to be captured in Denmark and held there until he died 
in 1578 at age 44.
Mary was taken prisoner and held in Scotland until 1568 when she escaped to England and threw herself on Elizabeth’s mercy. Elizabeth kept her on house arrest for about nineteen years while she fought with her advisors and parliament to try to keep from having her cousin queen executed. Mary for her part appears to on more than one occasion to have welcomed the advances of plots against Elizabeth and the throne. She was executed on Feb. 8, 1587 at Fotheringhay Castle–legend has it that when the executioner went to pick up the head by her hair, it fell back down as she was wearing a wig.
From mine enemy let me defend myself; from a pretensed friend, good lord deliver me. Elizabeth I
Mary’s courageous demeanour on the scaffold according to Weir “obliterated for many–as it still does–the earlier image of her as an adulteress and murderess and led to perception of her as a tragic heroine rather than a fallen woman. ” MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS AND THE MURDER OF LORD DARNLEY
“I am myself a Queen, the daughter of a King, a stranger, and the true Kinswoman of the Queen of England. I came to England on my cousin’s promise of assistance against my enemies and rebel subjects and was at once imprisoned.” Mary Queen of Scotts
Elizabeth lived another 16 year as supreme ruler of England. She never married and was as far as we can prove childless. When she died Mary’s son James VI of Scotland took a joint thrown for both counties becoming James I of England. Elizabeth ruled for 45 years and has had mixed reviews on her reign but considering her life before taking the throne and all that went on while she was queen I think she deserves the best of these.
Your judgment I condemn not, neither do I mistake your reasons, but pray you to accept my thankfulness, excuse my doubtfulness, and take in good part my answer, answerless.
(Elizabeth to Parliamentary Delegation again in regards to the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots)
Elizabeth felt duped by her advisers and was angry that the execution took place. http://www.rmg.co.uk/discover/explore/elizabeth-i-and-mary-queen-scots
and that my dears concludes the 3 queens. I will let you make your own conclusions.
Sources
THE CELTS/Hern
THE FIRST ELIZABETH/Erickson
THE LIFE OF ELIZABETH/Weir
THE OXFORD ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF THE VIKINGS/Ed. Sawyer
THE TUDORS/Meyer
MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS AND THE MURDER OF LORD DARNLEY/Weir
ROYAL BRITAIN/Encyclopedia
