This is my entry for the TCVC Round 3. We should vid something that changes all the time or stays the same. I kind of choose both, I guess.
There will always be persons in power, but who is in power is always changing. I decided to show this with the characters of Mary Stuart and Elizabeth Tudor, but also a little with Catherine d'Medici and Marie de Guise. Mother-in-law and mother of Mary Stuart.
I also wanted to try a new style for this video. I found myself really enjoying these videos that rely on the quotes and not so much on the music. It was a lot of fun and I look forward to doing it again one day.
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"A word of advice for the next queen. Remember, no matter how many countries you rule or palaces you own, power is always fleeting."
"Fight. For yourself. Your country. Your throne. Be unassailable."
"I will let noone - not Elizabeth, not any usurper - take my country from me."
"You were nobodys' first choice, and yet, here you are."
"What are you doing to dull your ache for power? Do you really miss sitting on my throne that much?"
"Since I was a babe I have been a queen; since a child I have been alone on foreign soil."
"I have lived my entire life a catholic queen. I will not allow Knox to bully me into something I'm not."
"I have sold my soul and my child to protect myself and my nation."
"I rule Scotland but you are actually its queen."
"Mary may be Scotland's queen but I am its king."
"When I return to Scotland - our home - it will either because you have failed or because you are dead."
"I know how to keep my life, my crown and I will."
"You have many protestants against you. That ? John Knox. Not to mention the Highland tribes with disregard for any monarchy."
"If you decline Rome's advice, you will lose its gold, its armys." - "And I will be powerless to take back Scotland from the protestants."
"You know that as a queen you have to put on an act. You can't always show what's in your heart."
"Appearances matter for people like us. Condé and I can appear to have no friendship that is more than political."
"To name a successor is to place a target on oneself."
"I am just as strong and as stubborn as Elizabeth. I will not live in fear of her."
"You are sending delegates to Rome to call Mary, Queen of Scots, a whore?"
"Catherine wants to destroy me, and if she can't she will help Elizabeth destroy my nation."
"She'll be disgraced. Forced, by her own country men, of her throne. And no longer capable of reaching for yours."
"That doesn't make it right." - "Who cares about right or wrong, if your are dead?"
"I don't understand how you can justify it - in your heart, in your soul. These terrible shortcuts." - "Ruling requires that your hands be drenched in blood."
"I am a queen and a fight and a woman who stops at nothing to save Scotland."
"You, who have led so many to their destruction, know it."
"I wanted the world for you. I wanted England and France to fall at your feet."
"If Mary couldn't keep the job of queen in her own nation, how could she be a could candidate for yours?"
"It isn't only her legitimacy that makes her a better choice. It's the fact that she is wed. Every monarchy needs a clear heir to the throne so power can be passed down without bloodshed or the fear of it you feel everyday."
"And so long as I live, I shall be the Queen of England."
"Royals have such a strange sense of family, don't you think?"