The Disturbing True History Of Mary, Queen Of Scots D
there have been some scandalous monarchs in history yet none of them come close to Mary Queen of Scots from her crowning as a mere newborn to her Infamous violent end it’s a shame Mary’s tragic story is so little known there was truly nothing else like it but one cold February day in 1587 Mary Queen of Scots stood charged of treason waiting stiffly as The Gallows for her execution as she approached the chopping block her head held high the two execution ERS asked the queen for her forgiveness for what they were about to do as was customary at this time Mary looked at them in the eyes and responded with her heartbreaking final words on December 8th 1542 little Mary came into the world as the daughter of James I of Scotland and his Spitfire wife Mary of G yet from the very beginning life was harsh to the girl born prematurely she was fragile and had to fight tooth and nail for her right to
stay in this world in the future this stubborn will to live was often the only thing that saved her I’d love to say that Mary grew up in a warm loving environment but that’s not what happened at all just 6 days after her birth immense tragedy struck her father King James collapsed either from nervous exhaustion or contaminated drinking water and soon perished the newborn girl was now fatherless and very very vulnerable for the six short days she shared on Earth with her father Mary was his only surviving legitimate child and the presumptive heir to his throne once he passed the presumption became Grim reality though in voice noted she was weak and frail this baby was now the queen of all of Scotland and the entire country rested on her tiny shoulders from the very first it was a wild ride though Mary was still an infant and had regions doing most of her decision-making for the first Decades of her life this didn’t mean she was out of
the action far from it almost immediately after her crowning the infamous King Henry VII of England started trying to get Mary bethroned to his son Edward and he stopped at nothing to accomplish it when Scotland eventually rejected Henry’s proposal the king’s response was infamously disturbing he began his so-called rough wooing of the little girl attacking Scotland and trying to Strongarm them into green to the union through Brute Force meanwhile Mary just burbled and G L along because she was still a baby in 1547 the first part of Mary’s Destiny locked into place Scotland terrified of King Henry VII and losing badly turned to France for help the French King said sure as long as she marries my son and the country readily agreed from that point on Mary was officially bethroned to the 3-year-old Francis I guess anyone is better than a relative of King Henry
VII now that the 5-year-old Mary was was no longer single and ready to mingle her family sent her to France and out of Henry VII’s Rampage to live with her toddler fiance these were the years that shaped her life while Mary was in France there are multiple reports of how much people like the sweet little girl everyone that is except one Mary’s future mother-in-law The Fearsome Katherine deichi she was apparently cold with a Scottish infant through their time together but there’s no doubt that Mary picked up a few tricks from Catherine cunning Playbook the French Court was astonished at what the toddler who came to them grew into a great Beauty she had a small face a long graceful neck hazel eyes and a head of thick auburn hair her most striking feature in an era of bad diets and rampant disease Mary grew to be an astonishing 5′ 11 in tall even as a premature while Mary was flourishing Prince Francis had a notable stutter was
constantly ill and somewhat shorter than average for the time but they had a secret weapon Odd Couple or not they got along as if they had known each other for a long time the pair were close confidence which is good because their wedding came at them fast in 1558 Mary was a flush 16-year-old while Prince Francis was 14 and probably still dealing with his first wave of acne still this was apparently mature enough the court married them in a Royal ceremony full of Pomp and Circumstances on April 24th of that year the plan was to get them pumping out their airs immediately a plan that did not work out the very next year France’s father Henry made the grave mistake of getting injured in a summertime Jo and he eventually passed away from his wounds through this Misfortune the teenage love birds were now the king and queen of France except more heartache was on the horizon in June 1560 it was Mary’s turn to lose a parent her mother Mary of guys
passed that year rending the girl officially an orphan and throwing Scotland into even more political turmoil at just 17 years old the still teenage Mary barely knew how to process the grief and morning in fact she wouldn’t even have time to throughout all these years Francis and Mary never had a child and there are no reports that Mary was even pregnant during this time although some historians say this might have been because of France’s many ailments in early winter 1560 Francis was ailing again this time with an ear infection Mary might have thought it was business as usual for her sick husband but it took a dark turn the infection led to a devastating and fatal brain problem and on December 4th the King was dead once more Mary’s whole world fell apart in the blink of an eye even as she grieved the loss of her mother and her husband Katherine deichi carded Mary off back to Scotland in 1561 by this time
Mary’s native land was now a foreign country to her and she arrived just in time for a dangerous game of thr Thrones today Mary is Infamous for her rivalry with her cousin Queen Elizabeth the of England and for a very good reason Mary’s Royal lineage and Catholic faith made her very popular with who wanted to O Elizabeth from power and Mary herself was pretty interested in adding Queen of England to her titles the ambition would be her downfall in the early 1560s Queen Elizabeth the decided she go do her cousin the solid and suggests her own Court favorite the eternally handsome and Suave Lord Robert Dudley as the potential Suitor but well wasn’t really out of the goodness of her heart in truth Elizabeth wanted to neutralize Mary she thought if Dudley could woo the Queen of Scots Mary would be in her pocket there were just two enormous
problems Dudley was very likely Elizabeth’s own lover and Elizabeth actually wanted them all to live at the English Court as some bizarre manaja around this time Mary got into another major Family Feud religion was a big deal in the 16th century and while Mary was Catholic revolutionary forces had been turning Scotland ever more prosent in her absence the kicker her own half brother the Earl of morray was the leader see Mary was darn smart and if there was one thing she’d learned living alongside Katherine deichi it was to keep your friends close and your enemy half Brothers closer astonishing everyone Mary made morray her Chief advisor and kept a bunch of his prostin and friends around to boot after all she need friends she was about to come up against the most volatile period of her life for all that Mary was unlucky in love her next husband was hiding in plain sight in February 1561 when she
was still in the morning for Francis she met her half cousin Henry Stewart AKA Lord darnley in passing through The Grieving Queen must have not thought much of him at the time they got a second chance at love 4 years later upon their second meeting Mary was immediately smitten with darnley and it’s not hard to see why nicknamed The Long lad darnley was over 6 feet tall and an absolute giant by the day standards well that suited the 511 Mary just fine and it sure didn’t hurt that darnley was famously good-looking on top of it all yet she paid a devastatingly high price for love unwilling to wait Mary Mary wed darnley in a fit of passion at Holly Roode Palace in July 1565 against all the advice of her counselors and without even getting a pole dispensation for marriage between Catholic cousins it happened so fast and it made so little sense one person even said she was Bewitched black magic
wasn’t a bad explanation there were signs from the very beginning that darnley and Mary were a bad match but she didn’t listen to them Queen Elizabeth for one was INF trated with the Union both darnley and Mary had claims to the English throne and Elizabeth was terrified any children they produced would present an even bigger threat but there was also troubles closer to home marrying darnley was a very very very bad idea besides taking off Elizabeth Mary’s rash decision also inflamed her brother morray who didn’t like that now both the King and Queen of Scotland were Catholics in response he went and to open Rebellion for a Time Mary’s flame for darnley burned bright and she called him the lustiest and best proportion long man that she had seen darnley represented an Immaculate image to Queen Mary at least At first she quickly found out his dark
side he might have been a living Adonis but he was also unimaginably vain to insult to injury he had a burgeoning drinking problem that often showcase a violent streak evidently darnley’s Antics outside the bed chamber didn’t ruin the relationship inside of it because in late 1565 Mary found herself pregnant it was a mixed blessing on one hand she might have provided the air that Scotland needed on the other the no good Darley seemed to be the father then as the nation awaited the birth another violent Wind of Change came in Blowing as the year wore on darnley added jealousy to his long list of problems through the court great fine he heard Whispers that Mary’s baby wasn’t his child instead the story went she was carrying on an affair with the real father her private secretary David Rizo true or not darnley was still sore about
his lack of power soon he plotted a breathtaking revenge on March 9th 1566 Mary was sitting quietly in a room with rizio in an instant it turned into a bloodbath darnley burst out followed by a group of co-conspirators and they stabbed Rio 56 times in the front of the pregnant Mary darnley murdered a man in front of his pregnant wife at the best of times Queen Mary was a volatile creature one minute sociable and kind and the next minute quiet her unpredictable Health didn’t help matters either she was prone to bouts of serious illness including a Spate of unknown sicknesses in late 1566 that left her constantly vomiting near blind and susceptible to convulsions even after all this incredible heartache Mary was still pregnant and still head of a country in other words she had to persevere she would persevere on June
19th 1566 at the vaed Edenberg Castle she gave birth to the Royal heir at long last a son named James and even post labor she found time to be feisty Mary was almost literally born a queen and aside from her idiot husband she did not have time for other people’s Tom Foolery while James was getting baptized the bizarre custom was to have the Archbishop of St Andrew spit in the baby’s mouth Mary staunchly refused calling the Archbishop a Pocky priest and getting her newborn the heck away from there in early February 1567 another Scandal ravaged Mary’s life it was the most colossal tragedy yet sometime between the evening of February 9th and the early morning hour of the 10th attendants found darnley and his valet in an orchard on the Royal Estate of kirco field it was the beginning of a mystery and the end of two lives they were both stoned dead the
Royal crime scene has now become infamous for its bizarre details early that morning an explosion had rocked Kirk field Palace officials later discovered that the source of the blast had come from two gunpowder barrels that were conveniently right underneath darnley’s room the state of darley’s body was yet another strange entry in the case File he and his valet were far away from the building darnley was only in his night shirt as if someone had chased him out while a cloak dagger chair and coat surrounded darley’s valet and the most important detail was also the most unsettling of all in the end darnley’s cause of death was nothing like the injuries from the explosion in fact there were no superficial marks on his body at all though he did have some internal injuries that might have been caused by a blast but but no what really ended him was smothering or rather someone smothered him he had survived the explosion only to meet his maker out in the field as the dust settled
unsettling questions popped up darnley had been staying in kirco field at Queen Mary’s request recovering from a boat of smallpox or some other ailment in fact Mary had visited her husband almost daily and she had even come to see him that very afternoon before he passed it wasn’t long before rumors started flying about her involvement even Mary’s cousin Elizabeth didn’t know what to believe when the news reached her about the double homicide she dispatched a letter to Mary in it Elizabeth informed that even though everyone thought she was behind it for myself I beg you not to believe that I would not Harbor such a thought still Mary’s next actions didn’t help matters Mary was an avid golfer and the first female to play the sport in Scotland in fact people spotted her playing golf at St Andrews just just days after her husband’s murder in case you’re wondering those are really horrible Optics but there was one man they blamed for the deed itself the Earl
of Bothwell the cries got so loud Mary was even forced to put him on trial very conveniently she refused to lengthen the trial period so people could gather evidence and Bothwell was predictably acquitted then everything truly fell apart the next few days of Mary’s life are equal parts frustrating and shocking and everything hinges on interpretation this is what we know is true in April 1567 right after his trial Bothwell secured support to Wed Mary and then divorce his current wife on April 24th he had abducted Mary as she was traveling after that it gets terrifyingly hazy today we can never know if Bothwell was acting on Mary’s wishes and play acting the abduction or if she was truly an unwilling participant whatever the truth the scandalous outcome was the same they married on May 15th that’s right Mary’s new husband was probably her last
husband’s murderer and they tied the Knot Just 3 months after the gruesome deed can it get more dramatic than this absolutely it can Mary’s Court was utterly outraged when she married Bothwell with nowhere to turn Mary portly slipped into a despondent and violent depression and then came her brutal downfall after years Mary finally lost her subject’s trust for good her advisers all turned against her and raised an army seeking to dispose her from the throne along with her Sinister new spouse the hatred reached all the way down into the common classes and crowds of people began calling her an adulteress and a murderer in public Mary fought for weeks to retain her power but on July 24th 1567 The Jig was up the Victorious government imprisoned her and then forced her to abdicate the throne in favor of her son the 1-year-old James just as she she had been an infant Queen now her son was an infant King only his
disgraced mother was still alive Mary never saw him again so Mary came up with an ingenious plan after a year of plotting she convinced Larch L’s owner to help her Escape slipping away in the night of May 2nd 1568 and then she wrecked Havoc for 2 weeks the former Mary Queen of Scots went on an absolute tear she raised 6,000 men and then race came battling the Scottish forces led by her own brother morray on May 13th when her men faltered and fled from Battle Mary fought instead of admitting defeat Mary did something really drastic she fled across the border into England spending a night in Dunder and Abby and then procuring a fishing boat to cross sway fth into dear old blly her plan here was even more desperate than her first this time she was going to beg her cousin rival Elizabeth for help the most damning evidence Mary’s brother morray brought against his sister were eight
simple letters today we call them casket letters because marray reportedly found them in a silver casket well they might as well have been Mary’s own coffin the writings contain Love Letters from Mary to Bothwell and the parish spoke of their nefarious plot but not everything is as it seems modern historians don’t know how to make heads or tals of the casket letters today some argue they are malicious forgeries that cut up Mary’s very real letters with total lies While others say they must have had some kernel of Truth to them either way Mary’s contemporaries certainly believed that they were a genuine article and they LED Elizabeth to a bizarre verdict in August 1586 the latest team Mary plot hit England in the babington plot Anthony babington and John Ballard planned to rescue Mary and then put her you guessed it on the throne then time though Mary played an active role in The Conspiracy even communicating with the
men it might have worked until that is Elizabeth spy Master found out about it on October 25th 1586 the scotswoman stood trial where the counselors convicted her of treason and sentenced her to execution yet after all that Elizabeth was still hesitant to execute her cousin but not without Mercy instead of wanting to publicly execute Mary or pardon her Elizabeth initially tried to secretly poison her but the man that she was trying to get to do it refused in a last tich effort to avoid having to execute Mary Elizabeth pleaded with her to just admit to her sins if she begged for forgiveness Elizabeth would pardon her but Mary proudly said no Mary was born a monarch and she died as one two she went up to the Executioner block dressed in the Nines in a somber black satin outfit with a velvet pet coat and crimsom sleeves Bel this was actually a secret message Crimson was the color of
martyrdom in the Catholic church and Mary was staking her own claim to the name even in the face of the reaper Mary managed to muster up a rise sense of humor as the executioners and her servants helped her undress and meet her fate she reply smiled and told them that she had never had such Grooms before nor even put off her clothes before such company as I always say we laugh so we do not cry executioners then begged Mary for forgiveness Mary responded kindly telling them I forgive you with all my heart for now I hope you shall make an end of all my troubles she then knelt down on the Block positioned her head sadly her next moments were full of indignity so what do you guys think of the feud between Elizabeth and Mary and what do you think of Mary herself let us know in the comments below and we can have a discussion but remember to like comment and subscribe and we’ll see you in the next video
