Name: Royal Drama! // How Historically Accurate is Mary Queen of Scots? [CC]
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This is a long awaited — late — video. How historically accurate is the movie "Mary, Queen of Scots"?

about the film "The Favourite" and its treatment Queen Anne,

who was the English and then British queen between 1702 and 1714.

I mentioned at the end of that video to let me know which film you'd like me to review next

and said, I would do "Mary, Queen of Scots" and then

For the — okay. No, that's, that's. Wow. Ugh.

I actually have glasses with fake glass in and then I can just look suitably history "profeshor-ish" for these videos.

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Much like looking at the life of Queen Anne

— that gorgeous disabled lesbian played by the wonderful Olivia Colman —

Because I'm very obsessed with Philippa Gregory's historical novels,

and found the one concerning Mary very interesting.

But it kind of differed from what we've been taught about her in school

and then I start to dig deeper and begin researching into her life and her relationships,

particularly that with Elizabeth I, the Queen of England, who was her second cousin.

But before we get into the film...there's a dog coming to sit on my lap.

Before we get into the film, let's begin with a little history lesson.

If you're English, you've most definitely heard of the Tudors, because all schoolteachers are apparently

So much so that you spend years and years learning about this one very specific royal family

to the extent that we know more about their family dramas than we do our own!

The Tudor dynasty — actually, I'm not calling them a dynasty, they don't deserve that.

The royal family began when a man called Henry Tudor killed the English king,

and decided thanks to his INCREDIBLY tenuous link to the crown.

His grandmother had been the king's wife, but his grandfather was actually a glorified servant who

she ran off with after she was widowed, and his mother descended from an illegitimate grandson

Also you DEFINITELY didn't have the poor princess in the tower killed!

Anyway. He sucked as a person and as the king.

He also forced the rightful but female heir to the throne,

the beautiful granddaughter of my favorite historical figure, Jacquetta of Luxembourg, into marriage

by coercing her into having sex with him until she was pregnant and then didn't even properly crown her

until he was sure that the baby boy was actually going to make it to childhood.

Apparently he told her if she didn't have a baby boy with him,

he was going to try and force her son on her younger sisters who were all children!

and Mary, who was cute and I'm never gonna mention again.

Don't write that in your history exam, okay?

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Sadly Arthur, who'd have been a great king because he was a refined, courageous young man

and kid who got all the best bits from his mother's side, died as a teenager not long after marrying the Spanish

Princess Catalina of Aragon, also known as Catherine.

Margaret, the second child is important, too.

At the age of 14, she was married to the king of Scotland, James IV, and sent up north as essentially a

peace treaty of a person. The hope was that she would have many, many babies who would securely tie the

Kingdom of Scotland and England, and thus ensure that the Scottish would stop raiding the north of England

Sure, you just give him such a more reason to invade England.

Now they ever claimed that for him too, but sure.

Unfortunately, she wasn't the brightest spark and continually angered the Scottish Lords

Much like we'll see her granddaughter do in a minute.

Margaret and James had by all accounts a very good marriage and produced six children, although only one

actually survived infancy and later became James V at the age of seventeen months

when his father was killed by the English.

Margaret then attempted to act as regent for her son,

the baby king, but faced more than a bit of opposition

Especially them. They were part of an alliance with the French against the English.

See? I told you that who princess peace treaty thing wouldn't work out.

Margaret is considered to have acted calmly and with some degree of political skill.

By July 1540 she'd even managed to reconcile the contending parties and

Scotland along with France concluded peace with England that very same month.

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