She was a cutie. But she sure did cry a lot...
Posted on 03/23/2018 9:26:58 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, was a lying adulteress who plotted with her lover to murder her husband, an intriguing new study claims.
The analysis by Lesley Smith, a medical historian, claims that Mary lied about being raped to explain her pregnancy and justify her third marriage after her second husband, Lord Darnley, was strangled in Edinburgh...
Her beauty and sexual attractiveness -- at 5ft 11in, Mary was about a foot taller than the average woman -- gave her cousin Elizabeth I all the more reason to eventually execute her for treason in 1587, Ms Smith said.
"All in all, Mary Queen of Scots was a very dangerous creature to the unmarried Protestant Elizabeth, and her physical presence made her positively intoxicating to anyone who met her."
The researcher analysed a report by Claude Nau, Mary's adviser and secretary, that she miscarried twins on July 24, 1567, at Loch Levan Castle, Kinross.
The Scottish queen was held prisoner by her own people at the castle after she married James Hepburn, fourth Earl of Bothwell, just 12 weeks after Darnley's murder.
She justified the marriage to Bothwell, a Protestant, by saying that she had to preserve her honour after he abducted and "ravished" her at Dunbar Castle. Bothwell was the prime suspect in the murder, but was acquitted in what is now widely regarded as a sham trial...
The miscarriage took place seven weeks after the wedding. However, it would have required modern microscopes and knowledge of foetal development to identify the babies as twins such an early stage of pregnancy, said Ms Smith.
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Mary Queen of Scots was a Stuart, not a Tudor. Elizabeth had her executed because her claim to the throne was arguably stronger than Elizabeth’s own.
Mary QoS’s mom was Henry VIII’s sister, Margaret Tudor.
wrong Mary!!
Hahaha!!!
Yes.
There is irony in Elizabeth's eventual successor. I'm not sure this is true, but I've heard that when Elizabeth was old and dying, she lost the power of speech. Childless, she had no obvious heir. Ministers gathered around her deathbed as she lay dying and tried to determine the successor. Various names were mentioned. Each had pros and cons. Finally, they mentioned James Stuart, ruling Scotland as James VI. When they mentioned him, Elizabeth managed to raise her hands to her head, fingers splayed upward, making a crown. And that's how James VI of Scotland became James I of England, and how the Stuarts made it to the throne.
But the story is probably not true, I think, because Elizabeth likely could have just written a note.
And as the story goes, unbeknownst to the executioner, Mary wore a wig, and when he lifted up her head to the witnesses in the Great Hall of Fotheringhay Castle, he was left holding the wig as her head rolled down the stairs of the platform.
At 12 weeks, if that’s when the miscarriage occurred, it would be very easy to identify twins.
She was a cutie. But she sure did cry a lot...
Read E ate so much sugar, later in life her teeth had all rotted out. Who knows?
http://www.tudorsdynasty.com/queen-elizabeths-rotten-teeth/
We now know Richard III hasn’t a hunchback.
Beheaded girl sure do bleed a lot.
As Henry VIII's only survivign child, no one had a stronger claim than Elizabeth. The only way Mary's (or any Stuart's) claim could be stronger was if one considered Elizabeth illegitimate. Catholics did consider Elizabeth illegitimate because they did not recognize Henry's divorce and remarriage. But by the laws of the time, after Henry had "protestantized" the country, she was legitimate.
Now it’s time for the Penguin on top of your Television set to explode!
“Catholics did consider Elizabeth illegitimate “
That was almost all of Europe!
My ancestors were positively naughty!
There, fixed it.
LOL
nothing beautiful in that image of Mary, just butt ugly.
Sopranos did it. Sopranos did it.
“Hmmmm.... A psychopath who liked burning people was something I always knew her for.”
(sigh)
You’re apparently confusing her with “Bloody Mary” - who was not so bloody after all and neither one of them enjoyed burning people. It’s the information age. Get with it. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherhowse/5518023/Why-Queen-Mary-wanted-to-burn.html
That’s why I said “arguably”. Henry married Anne Boleyn and begat Elizabeth while Katharine was still alive. Most of Europe considered that to be adultery, as Elizabeth very well knew.
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