Did Mary Queen of Scots plot to kill her husband?

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This week on Tea Time History Chat Live - the so-called Casket Letters and how they implicate Mary, Queen of Scots in the murder of her second husband, the father of her son James, Lord Darnley.
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@alancumming6407 2 ай бұрын

A very interesting podcast. Many thanks.

@LindaKaschyk 2 ай бұрын

Watching the catch up ! Love the casket letters story.

@TheSimpleRomantic 2 ай бұрын

Thank you Issac 😊

@tonyalogan5095 Ай бұрын

Love this subject, thank you. Mary was led by her heart rather than her head most times, I think. Her Granddaughter did the same giving up Scotland's crown (her son's) to marry Angus and continues to be led by her ❤ by hooking up like Mary Queen of Scots with men that just want power not their hearts.

@ODDwayne1 2 ай бұрын

This is especially interesting. Thank you Philippa and Isaac. Safe travels. Have fun.🎉

@theresalaux5655 2 ай бұрын

Thankyou Isaac and Philippa.😅❤

@ryanborder189 2 ай бұрын

I think most women would find it particularly appalling that he was was sleeping with men as well as women. And I'm a gay man!

@Chipoo88 2 ай бұрын

I might have missed it so apologies if so but I think it is worth mentioning that there is a very persistent school of thought amongst historians that Mary was forced to leave with Bothwell and that she was raped which would have made it impossible for her not to marry him as was the custom at that time, especially as Queen. So we don’t know that she made a massive mistake as was described in this video . Also I don’t think Mary was obsessed with being the heir to English throne because she simply was, and legitimately, unlike Elizabeth, and as Elizabeth wouldn’t recognize her as such she rightly maintains her claim as anyone else would 😊. The thought process about the twins being Bothwell’s sounds a tad farfetched but thank you for sharing, thanks to both!

@BritishHistory 2 ай бұрын

Hi! 😀 I thought I had said that the accepted narrative has been that she was raped by Bosworth and therefore had to marry him? Mary had a bloodline claim and was considered rightful heir to her cousin Mary I however the Scottish line of Henry VIIIs sister, Margaret, had been excluded from the succession. However, I refer to her “succession obsession” due simply to the way it comes across as her primary concern in her communications to Elizabeth, as described in multiple biographies on her. The observational argument about the twins basically boils down to, it is highly unlikely that the miscarriage could have been identified as one of twins without her being more pregnant than the rape story would support. Bearing in mind the implications of when she became pregnant affects our understanding of the forced marriage and consequently her potential involvement in Darnley’s murder. It raises interesting questions but i’m not suggesting we have solid evidence of it either way. But this is what makes history so interesting! 😀

@jardon8636 2 ай бұрын

king consort :henry stewart lord darnley & queen regnant mary stuart... share a common english ancestor.. who became scottish... Joan Beaufort : Queen of Scotland from 1424 to 1437 as the spouse of King James I of Scotland. joan was the granddaughter of EDWARD III... also a plantagenet descendant of EDWARD I.... During part of the minority of her son James II (from 1437 to 1439), she served as the regent of Scotland.