Posted by JoseRoyal
on 7/9/2009, 7:10:59, in reply to "Re: Mary,Queen of Scots' last letter to go on show "
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I think Mary Queen of Scots did what most monarchs did at that time. Got rid of people who could make trouble and try to survive. Although she failed in this undertaking. Queen Elizabeth I legally had no right to arrest her and excute her but she did anyways for the same reasons that Mary had to kill her second husband To survive.
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: If the report is accurate, she was self
: deluding to the end. She was not a martyr;
: she was a murderess. She was clearly
: involved in the murder of her second
: husband, and then plotted to overthrow both
: her own son, and her cousin Elizabeth.
:
: Well,she was brought up at the French court
: where imprisoning and or murdering
: inconvenient people including relatives was
: practically a way of life,rather like it was
: at the Tudor court.Let's not get holier than
: thou here!
:
: Mary did what she felt she had to do to
: survive just like cousin Elizabeth did.She
: wanted her throne back (taken away by
: unscrupulous relatives using her infant son
: as a pawn) and her liberty (strangely taken
: away by her English cousin).That her efforts
: were less successful than her cousin's
: merely illustrates that she was not quite as
: clever at doing it than her cousin
: was.Didn't make her any worse...just less
: capable.
:
: The real reason why Walsingham,Burghley and
: others wanted to get rid of Mary was to
: remove a potential figurehead for imagined
: Catholic uprisings in the event of a Spanish
: invasion (the Armada was launched the
: following year).
: That's why they framed her with the
: ridiculous Babington Plot.To that
: extent,although certainly no saint,Mary was
: right to consider herself a martyr for the
: cause of an increasingly oppressed people
: ie.the English Catholics.
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