I saw Mary Queen of Scots...anyone else?

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I saw this movie yesterday. It was pretty good. I was disappointed it did not really show her practicing her Catholic faith except for one scene.
I understand the two actually never met in
person. So I don’t know what other nonfactual scenes were in the movie.
It was good. It makes one wonder if she could have regained the throne how history might be different.

Has anyone else seen this movie?
 
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Hmm, I might see it since it was made by the people who made “Darkest Hour”, which I enjoyed.

I was rather a fan of the 1971 “Mary Queen of Scots” with Vanessa Redgrave and Glenda Jackson. I can see where they’ve tried very hard to make Saoirse Ronan look like the actual historical portrait of Mary Queen of Scots. Having Mary speak with a Scots accent is totally laughable though. She spent almost her whole youth from age 5 to age 18 in France and would have had a French accent.
 
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Not to mention, the Scots accent from that time Wouldn’t even sound like modern Scots, and France being a big country made up of different peoples with different historical languages, Wouldn’t even have a single French accent. I think, with that being said, you can’t discount that she might have a Scots accent, because when I lived in Illinois, there was a lady I knew that was born and raised in Chicago (she was an older lady), and her parents were from Ireland, and she had the strongest Irish accent I have ever heard. I think you’re probably right, just something to think about though.
 
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This version just came out yesterday.

I know Katherine Hepburn played her in an
earlier version (black and white).
 
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Not to mention, the Scots accent from that time Wouldn’t even sound like modern Scots, and France being a big country made up of different peoples with different historical languages, Wouldn’t even have a single French accent. I think, with that being said, you can’t discount that she might have a Scots accent, because when I lived in Illinois, there was a lady I knew that was born and raised in Chicago (she was an older lady), and her parents were from Ireland, and she had the strongest Irish accent I have ever heard. I think you’re probably right, just something to think about though.
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True she spent her early years in Scotland but even then her mother was French and from her earliest youth she was groomed for a French alliance.

The so-called casket letters, allegedly written by Mary, were (if memory serves) written in French, which would seem to indicate that she she was not comfortable writing even to the Scottish Earl of Bothwell in English or Scots.
 
It looks interesting; an Australian actress playing an English queen and an Irish actress playing a Scottish aspiring queen.
 
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It looks interesting; an Australian actress playing an English queen and an Irish actress playing a Scottish aspiring queen.
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She was an actual rather than merely aspiring queen - just not of England.
 
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I saw a documentary on the real Mary queen of Scots and it’s an interesting tale. She had a lover who was murdered, her son James virtually disowned her and she was under house arrest for years. A Dutchman wrote to her saying that he could raise an army to help release her which she ignored until one day she succumbed and agreed to his help. The secret service then knew of this and the head of them petitioned Queen Elizabeth to have her executed. Elizabeth refused to execute another member of the royal family but eventually the execution paper was one of many papers she signed one day, she said by accident and Mary was executed. On Queen Elizabeth’s death bed she was supposed to have been heard bewailing the death of Mary.

A very sad tale actually.
 
Queen Elizabeth did have regrets about killing Mary. She thought that she was going to hell for killing an anointed queen.
 
Exactly, it was a very sad story. A tragedy and a reflection of the highly competitive nature and brutality which marked the power struggles giving birth to the British nation we know today.

Since watching the documentary I have thought of poor Queen Mary several times.
 
They said during the day of her beheading, Mary wore red, which was the color of Catholic martyrs.
 
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Yes, she famously did something as well just prior to her execution, something to do with her Catholic faith but I don’t remember what it was now. She was brave I remember that. Didn’t she forgive her executioner?
 
Ive been in the birthing room where she gave birth to James, but…I don’t remember where it was, I think it was Edinburgh castle. It was a surprisingly small room, around eight feet and circular.
 
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I am not sure she was in a nice castle. I think the place she was held was damp amd cold, but maybe that was later.

Many probably don’t realize her son James is the same one that when he grew up and became king had the Bible translation named for him - the King James Bible.
 
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