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Dec 6, 2018 · Widowed following the unexpected death of her first husband, France’s Francis II, she left her home of 13 years for the unknown entity of Scotland, which had been plagued by factionalism and...
- Meilan Solly
- Probably Fiction: Elizabeth Was Preoccupied with Her Fertility
- Possibly Fact: Elizabeth Had An Affair with Robert Dudley
- Fact: Elizabeth and Mary Exchanged Letters
- Fact: Mary’s Half-Brother James Conspired with John Knox
- Fact: Queen Mary’s Second Husband Tried to Usurp The Throne
- Possibly Fact: Darnley Had An Affair with Mary’s Secretary, David Rizzio
- Fact: Darnley Conspired to Murder Rizzio
- Fact: Darnley Was Murdered
- Fact: Lord Bothwell Raped Mary
- Fiction: Elizabeth and Mary Met in Secret
Much of the drama in Mary Queen of Scotscenters on the two queens’ romantic choices. Historically, Elizabeth has been portrayed as cold and calculating, while Mary has been perceived as flighty and incompetent. Both Guy and the film take pains to show that both women actually defied such stereotypes. Still, the movie also suggests that Elizabeth en...
In the movie, Elizabeth is shown to be romantically entangled with Robert Dudley (Joe Alwyn) but refuses to marry him. At the time, rumors swirled about the two. Some people even posited that Dudley killed his own wife in order to be with Elizabeth. English noblemen did suggest that Dudley might be a good match for Mary, but Mary rejected him, prob...
Many of the letters that Mary and Elizabeth write to one another in the film are real. The two maintained a correspondence, and Elizabeth even considered naming Mary her heir. But Mary’s claim to the throne proved a threat to Elizabeth. Many perceived Elizabeth as the illegitimate child of a king who had sought an illegal divorce from his first wif...
Mary was raised in France alongside her eventual first husband, the Dauphin of France. But she was widowed at age 18 and fled to her homeland of Scotland after her husband’s death. Before she ever arrived on the country’s shores, the preacher John Knox (David Tennant) wrote the sexist screed The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regi...
After Queen Mary was widowed by her first husband at 18, she married Lord Darnley (Jack Lowden), her third cousin. Their marriage was likely motivated by politics, rather than passion: marrying Darnley strengthened Mary’s claim to the English throne. Though Mary had agreed to rule with Darnley as an equal, once they were wed, Darnley demanded that ...
Some historians, including Guy, contend that Mary’s second husband, Lord Darnley, did in fact sleep with the Italian-born David Rizzio (Ismael Cruz Cordova), one of the queen’s close associates. Guy writes that Rizzio and Darnley were found in bed together. Meanwhile, Rizzio became a close confidant of Mary’s, playing cards with her at night and ev...
Darnley either believed that he had been cuckolded or resented the fact that Mary’s court thought this to be true. Some historians also suggest that he grew jealous of Mary and Rizzio’s rumored relationship because he felt betrayed by Rizzo following their own rumored affair. The rest of the court resented that Rizzio had the ear of the queen, espe...
Someone blew up Darnley’s house, then strangled him to death after he managed to escape. Mary became convinced that these murderers were after her, as well. Though the two were estranged, she had visited Darnley’s house just a few hours before the attack. Mary’s third husband Lord Bothwell (Martin Compston) was tried for Darnley’s murder but acquit...
After Darnley was assassinated, Bothwell abducted Mary and kept her hostage for months. The movie condenses the timeline, but ultimately Bothwell did tell Mary that he would marry her, whether she wanted him or not. According to historians, Bothwell raped Mary, and the queen became pregnant—though she later miscarried. Mary could do nothing to esca...
The secret tete-a-tete between Elizabeth and Mary is invented for dramatic purposes. Both Guy’s biography and the film assert that Elizabeth was jealous of Mary’s youth, beauty and charisma. Ultimately, in the scene between Mary and Elizabeth, Elizabeth discovers that those very attributes have doomed Mary, while the more cautious and chaste Elizab...
- Eliana Dockterman
Dec 7, 2018 · Queen Elizabeth I’s Own Imprisonment. As if Elizabeth had not endured enough trauma in her adolescence, the reign of her half-sister, Mary Tudor (“Bloody Mary”), was just as problematic.
Dec 5, 2018 · The upcoming movie Mary Queen of Scots explores how Elizabeth I (played by Margot Robbie) and her first cousin once removed Mary, Queen of Scots (Saoirse Ronan) battled for decades to...
- Dana Rose Falcone
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Starring Academy Award nominees Soarise Ronan and Margot Robbie, the film tells the true story of Mary Stuart and her cousin, Elizabeth I. While the story is compelling, was a 2018 film true to...
Dec 7, 2018 · But we know from Elizabeth’s own letters that she wasn’t taken in by Mary’s image: When her cousin implored her to set aside “jealousy and mislike,” Elizabeth wrote that “we wish …
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Dec 6, 2018 · Ben Jonson wrote, 16 years after her death, that Elizabeth “never saw herself after she became old in a true glass”; according to this story, her servants painted her, and sometimes had fun by...
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