Monty Python Instant Record Collection, Vol. 2 © 1976 Arista Records LLCDeath Of Mary Queen Of Scots | November 8, 2014 | Monty Python - Topic
Posted on 06/21/2022 6:44:23 PM PDT by texas booster
But it certainly makes for good reading of history.
for those that want a reference to the book cited in the article.
Mary was really a clueless dope very often. She should have allowed Knox to think he had converted her and nominally become a Protestant. If Paris was worth a mass than Edinburgh was worth a baptism. Knox as an ally and confederate would have been a powerful pillar of support. Over the long haul, even if Mary had to fly the coop from Scotland as a Princess converted to the reforming faith she would have been a guest not a potential focus of sedition in England. In passing, have there have been any more complete set of fools in history than the Catholic gentry who involved themselves in such idiocies as the Babington plot.
Stupid woman.
Back then, lots of the ‘royals’ were killing each other or arranging for the deaths, imprisonment, or banishment of others.
And marriage among them wasn’t more than a business contract.
James was a queer, Charles was an idiot, his son was also an idiot. James had to get out of dodge because he was an idiot.
I guess the only two might have been Mary-William and Mary, and last Ann-who was also weird.
I can only count..up to the Hanoverian's, a few monarchs who were worth anything. Edward the 3rd comes to mind.
I suppose Queen Anne might have been a bit odd, she had 13 still births and miscarraiges and one son who dies at 13.
Well, she had lady friends that she favored. One of them the ancestor of Winston Churchill I understand.
I supposed the child birth problems might have had something to do with it mentally.
Of course James the 1st was a out and out queer. Yet he managed to do his “duty” and father children.
My dearest Steenie...or how ever one spells it. He very seldom took a bath, stunk, name it and the man was..I mean who the hell jumps into a gut pile of a deer and wallows in it after it is dressed out.
I dont know which would have been considered the worst as far as that goes, He or Edward the 2nd.
And The Bonnie Price might have been the dullest Crayola in the box.
Well..he wasna to sharp that is for sure.
Another case where “close” only counts in horse shoes.
They were used to doing what they wanted, when they wanted and how they wanted.
The reason that England under Elizabeth flourished was that she had the support of the commoners, the Yeoman and the merchant class.
Monty Python Instant Record Collection, Vol. 2 © 1976 Arista Records LLCDeath Of Mary Queen Of Scots | November 8, 2014 | Monty Python - Topic
This topic was posted , thanks texas booster.
The other GGG topics added since the previous digest ping, chrono sort:
Excellent!
Thanks!
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My pleasure.
MQofS’s grandmother was sister to Henry VIII.
Margaret Tudor Queen of Scotland Facts, Biography & Information
https://englishhistory.net/tudor/relative/margaret-tudor/
The ‘royals’ of UK history were mainly scoundrels. ALL of them. Murderers, backstabbers, cowards and liars.
There were probably only a handful that were decent people.....................
Thanks for the relink.
I listened to the Monty Python skit, and wondered - is it better to teach history through a book or a Python skit?
I suspect that we need both.
They are funny, here and there, but it hasn't held up well for me. I enjoy the absurdity, but not their artless left wing smears and digs.
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