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This piece was one of the film score highlights from 2018. Composer Max Richter's work is always interesting, and he's scoring more films in recent years. St...
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Taken from "Bloody Queens: Mary and Elizabeth"
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Mary Queen of Scots - David Rizzio's Assassination: The Scottish aristocrats and Henry (Jack Lowden) stab Rizzio (Ismael Cruz Córdova) to death.BUY THE MOVIE...
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Feb 9, 2015 · Mary Stuart was executed on 8 February 1587 at Fotheringhay Castle, after a trial whose outcome forever troubled Queen Elizabeth I. This famous account of the execution was written by Robert Wynkfielde. Accounts such as these, and woodcuts of the scene, were very popular throughout Europe. The great scandals of Mary’s life were forgotten and ...
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When her father-in-law Henry II of France passed away in 1559 she briefly became Queen of France, but her young husband Francis II died barely a year into his reign aged just 16. In 1561, Mary returned to Scotland to rule as Queen. She found her homeland in the midst of religious upheaval – Scotland was now a Protestant country while Mary was Catho...
Over the next 19 years, Mary became a figurehead for Catholics to rally round. Many believed that Elizabeth’s parents, Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, were not legally married, meaning Elizabeth couldn’t be Queen. Mary was the granddaughter of Henry’s older sister Margaret and had a legitimate claim to the English throne. She was a clear candidate to t...
The following morning, Mary, Queen of Scots entered the room where she would be executed. She told her friends and servants to ‘rejoice rather than weep for that the end of Mary Stuart’s troubles is now come … tell my friends that I die a true woman to my religion, and like a true Scottish woman and a true French woman.’ Mary was disrobed; her blac...
After her execution, Mary’s clothes were burned so they could not be kept as relics. Her embalmed body was hidden at Fotheringhay for six months, then buried in a secret ceremony at Peterborough Cathedral. Queen Elizabeth reigned until 1603. She died aged 69, unmarried and childless. Mary’s son, King James VI of Scotland, became King James I of Eng...
Signature. Mary, Queen of Scots (8 December 1542 – 8 February 1587), also known as Mary Stuart[3] or Mary I of Scotland, [4] was Queen of Scotland from 14 December 1542 until her forced abdication in 1567. The only surviving legitimate child of James V of Scotland, Mary was six days old when her father died and she inherited the throne.
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The Trial of Mary Queen of Scots. Finally, Walsingham had the evidence he needed. Mary was formally arrested on the 11th of August 1586. She actually believed that the men behind the Babington Plot were coming to help her escape; however, it was Queen Elizabeth’s men, and she was taken into custody. Mary Queen of Scots went on trial.
