Very well said! You put that perfectly and it resonates with everything I've ever read about her.

I became a big supporter of Mary when I learned more about her life through some documentaries I've seen. It's so interesting how some people see her as a plotter and traitor and others as a martir. I lean towards the latter. What an interesting and devastating life she had!Maybe you can recommend some books on her for me. Thanks in advance.

@innate nobility. could you recommend a good book on Mary's life? thanks

@@seriouslyinsanediva The definitive biography on Mary is Antonia Fraser's "Mary Queen of Scots", and John Guy's "Queen of Scots." Novels on Mary are numerous, but I vastly prefer Margaret George's unprecedented masterpiece "Mary, Queen of Scotland & The Isles."

@@InnateNobility Thank you for the recomendations, I will check them out!

@karawigley She may well be legendary but not mythological as she was a real live historical figure.

Are there any portraits of Helena of Troy, though?

He just uploaded a video for Helen of Troy: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/n82RfNyqq63aeoE.html

How beautiful was Helen of Troy for people to risk so many lives.

Excellent suggestion my dear!

I love the Roman Empire!! I'm especially interested in Octavian. I watched the Showtime mini series ROME...I loved it!

amen to that, sadly evil runs this world.

@@leslieblanco3536 Well, not really. EVIL only appears to be running the world, but in actual fact GOD runs it. There were metaphysical matters of racist religion which pitted both Mary and Elisabeth against each other. Mary became a victim of cowardly male preferences against red haired half-Phoenicians who looked like Mary, which in turn actually became a curse on England's choices later on, and the great empire collapsed...Britain is very small today...and is dwindling into the average size of a what a normal nation ought to be. And Elisabeth II ended up being half-Phoenician anyway. Prince Harry is a red-head! That was divine justice in the long run. Prince Charles and his mum look like a Romans. England not only divorced from their German Saxony heritage, but the house of Wales is Celte-Phoenician and the Brexit is further proof that a new mixture is always independent. If "Mary" as a name was indeed fond of witchcraft (as many claimed), then her murder would have spellbound others, simply because esoteric paranormal has a loyalty to the name "Mary" for a very real reason.

My guess is that it was purely a logistical reason. She was on the run after escaping her imprisonment in Lochleven Castle and fleeing Scotland by ship was probably impossible. The authorities might capture her at a port and time was of the essence. The closest country was England just a cross the border. She fled under the false impression Elizabeth would welcome her with open arms and aid her in regaining her throne. That turned out to be far from the case and the rest is history. Mary's life could be summarized as a long series of disasters. She's such a tragic figure.

Yeah, she really believed that Elizabeth would have helped her as she would have helped Elizabeth had the story been flipped

Thank you so much!!

you're mad yourself! her picture was fine

I am sorry! Just noticed that there are several of my wishes already up 🙏🏼❤️

Thank you. I have a few earlier ones I've done that you have listed. Here are some: Princess de Lamballe: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rslga5eZr7LHg40.html The Duchesse de Polignac: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ftRzqNuCrrDVZ2g.html Axel Von Fersen: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/buB0ept1tpO2gWg.html You can check out more on my channel. I hope you enjoy.

Ooo yes; great idea!

If he does hopefully he makes her look more native cuz they whitewashed her portraits

Disney did it years ago 😆

@@kd1306 Her portraits weren't "white-washed". Smh. Pocohantas married an Englishman and even spent sometime living in England. Meaning, she wore European clothing. She actually wore European clothing for most of her very short adulthood....So, the few portraits of her aren't "white-washed". They're accurate.

Yes here is Pocahontas: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Zteoerh6tJi3k3U.html

Its not "fitting" if that is not what SHE wanted

@@withgoddess7164 so her burial didn’t turn out the way she wanted, but she is buried with family and her royal blood is respected with Westminster burial, so I think she would have been touched.

I would love to see Katherine Swynford and John of Gaunt but there is maybe one or two portraits of John and none of Katherine who was also reputed to be very beautiful. However, the ideals of beauty changed over time and what was considered beautiful then may not be considered so now.

Wrong - that was James IV (James Vs father!)

mary's grandfather*

Reign

that show is the least thing you should count on if you wanna know historical facts! real Mary was nothing like that show and didn't have her victories either

Are you decended from the Drummonds?

@@MrHarryHewitt1983 I’m not sure, I’m still trying to find out more about my families history. I have so many races inside of me it’s hard to put my finger on where I exactly came from, I just know that Mary Queen of Scott’s is my ancestor

@@edithserafina1002 Good luck on your search. It's really interesting to look into the past and find all the people you are related to. It might turn out that we are distant cousins. 😊

Two blows of the axe actually- according to eyewitnesses who saw the execution and even annotated that her lips were moving seem to be praying. But is it even possible to have somebody get beheaded cleanly with only two blows of an axe?

How so ? She had 3 children .. 2 died before or just after birth ... her son became King of Scotland and then King of England.

@@shellc6743 It is quite possible as the two daughters of James I married and have many descendants especially from Sophia Electress of Hanover who was the daughter of Elizabeth Stuart. Consequently Queen Elizabeth II is also directly descended from Mary Queen of Scots.

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For me Queen Mary is great aunt, I bet they're thousands of relatives out there.

@@BiG-JuPO1O1 apparently I’m a descendant of hers also. One of my first cousins did some research and got in contact with another cousin from the Muir line of my grandma who stated that not only are we related to Mary but also related to the famous naturalist John Muir. Another descendant of ours was listed as an Obrion from Ireland who as a member of the O’Brian family is descended from Brian Boru, a high king of Ireland. This Obrion left Ireland and eventually settled in Clay county, West Virginia where there is a town named Obrion.

Interactions through correspondences but they never met face to face despite entertainment industry portrayals. It would be interesting to know how different history would have played out if they met. They could have developed a close bond changing the course of history.

Actually, it is Mary I and Elizabeth I buried together. Mary Queen of Scots is nearby.

She was Elizabeth's First cousin once remove

She was a first cousin once removed

One of Mary's 'faults' is that she was kind hearted.Not a popular trait with so many of those in power at that time(& now?)

I disagree that Elizabeth pretended not to go through with the execution. Reports reveal when she was informed she went into a rage against those who promptly proceeded with the execution. It's difficult to fake that and there was no reason to behave in such a way after signing the warrant. The signing was already acknowledged by the Privy Council and not some state secret. I believe she intended to go through with it eventually, true, but she was not yet ready for the consequences and still emotionally upset about the whole ordeal.

@@jamesaron1967 As pointed out in my previous comment, Elizabeth intentionally made Mary's conditions so unbearable that she joined a plot to have Elizabeth killed then take the throne. The plot was intercepted and Mary was then tried and condemned to death. If Elizabeth had not wanted Mary dead she would not have done this. The fact that she signed the warrant proves that she wanted Mary executed. The state secretary asked her if she wanted him to take the signed warrant but she didn't answer. He then took it and then the execution was carried out. Elizabeth flew into a rage and the state secretary became a convenient scapegoat. The only reason Elizabeth had for being hesitant about Mary's execution was because Mary was an anointed queen and in the same club as Elizabeth. They believed that this was God's will. To execute a monarch undermined this. Elizabeth was highly strung and flew into rages all the time. She was very good at deceit and play acting. She had, after all, once been in Mary's position when her sister Mary I placed her under house arrest. So she knew every trick in the book and exactly how to trap Mary. Mary, on the other hand, was sheltered and somewhat naïve. After she fled from Scotland Mary could have gone to France. Unfortunately she made the wrong choice and hoped that Elizabeth would help her get her crown back. Elizabeth would not have done this for a Catholic and saw Mary as simply a threat, someone to get rid of, and eventually she succeeded.

@@susangavaghan The irony was of course that James VI also became James I of England and Ireland in 1603. Elizabeth new that the Stuarts would inherit the English Crown. Dealing with a current issue of the Catholic threat would not solve the problems in the future. As it is the Stuart monarchy was a disaster for the Crown which led to civil war and the abolition of the Crown in 1649. Although restored in 1660 the Crown has never fully recovered and the person wearing the Crown has become totally powerless in the complexities of the British unwritten constitution.

@@ds1868 Well, James I was not a Catholic. He was brought up as a protestant by his uncle. In fact he was famous for the execution of those involved in the gunpowder plot. They were a group of Catholics who were not happy with how they were being treated by James. The reason Charles I was executed had nothing to do with religion, but that he believed in the divine right of kings to rule over parliament. Parliament disagreed and hence the civil war. When Charles II was restored to the throne, the political climate had changed and monarch's could no longer run roughshod over parliament. When Charles had to flee the country after his father was executed, Catholics hid him in the various hiding places they used for their priests. So although Charles was publicly a protestant, he was actually a Catholic and proclaimed this on his death bed. His brother and successor James was openly a Catholic and wanted equal rights for Catholics. He was deposed and his daughter Mary and her husband William of Orange were brought in as joint monarchs. This clarified that the religion of the country was protestant and no Catholic could ever again become a British monarch. The situation had more to do with individuals and their choice of religion than the entire Stuart dynasty being at fault. England had been a Catholic country until the issue of Henry VIII wanting to get rid of Catherine of Aragon, marry Anne Boleyn and produce a son and heir. Henry broke with Rome but was still a Catholic. When he died his son Edward became king. Edward was an extreme protestant and would have persecuted and killed Catholics had he lived (despite the fact that his mother had been a Catholic). Jane Grey, his successor, would likely have done the same had she not been executed. So when Mary I became queen she began persecuting and executing protestants. Elizabeth did the same to Catholics. So it can be argued that the Tudors were a disaster for the country. Mary of Scots practiced religious tolerance to her subjects. Look where it got her. The problem was that since Henry VIII the country became split into two religious groups, and whichever monarch got into power, then their religion would be the religion of the country and the other group second class citizens. This problem would not have existed if both groups respected each other's differences instead of persecuting and killing them. I don't think Jesus would have wanted that. I don't think that it is a bad thing that unelected, privileged monarch's can no longer rule and dictate to the country and that parliament are the ones who actually rule. Although the prime minster still has to have weekly chats with the monarch, and no doubt the monarchs do influence the prime ministers.

ignorant fantasies of petty people like you! if Elizabeth wanted Mary die or to pressure her so much on purpose, she had 19 damn years to do it! and even after she was trailed, Elizabeth remained hesitant for a very very long time.

Scot not Scott.

@@ds1868 I fixed it so now your comment looks superfluous.

you petty infant people always saying that Elizabeth entire problem with Mary or force of life was jealousy for Mary, as if Elizabeth didn't have enough problems of her own, not enough bullshit in her own life in England and the way she grow up and abuse of others. you just want a fairytale that won't exist, so just shut up

Her death mask shows her beauty.

agree