This is the Tudor's Dynasty podcast.

And now, Ask the Expert with Steph.

Hi, all.

Welcome back to Ask the Expert.

I'm your host, Steph Store.

And today's guest is the fabulous author historian,

Dr. Mickey Mayhew, here to discuss the subject of his new book, Imprisoning Mary Queen of

Scots, the men who kept the Stuart Queen. Welcome, Mickey. Hello, nice to be here.

So Mary Queen of Scots was notoriously held in captivity with several different, quote,

wards, I guess we could call them, before she was ultimately executed by her cousin, Elizabeth I first.

So before we get into the real meat of this conversation, can you give our listeners

a quick synopsis of how her imprisonment even came to be? How did this even start?

Well, Mary was originally imprisoned in Scotland by her half-brother when she had, she married the Earl

of Bothwell, and that went very badly. She managed to escape.

She escaped to England, and from there she was probably locked up by Elizabeth I,

Elizabeth I, her cousin.

And that was it until pretty much the day she died.

So it was Elizabeth who kind of pulled the strings.

Well, it was more Cecil, her minister who encouraged her to lock Mary up.

But Elizabeth wasn't happy about having her in England. But initially she did want her to come

to court, but that was kind of knocked on the head really quickly. What do you think were some of the

things that Cecil would have been fighting for? Well, Mary was a Catholic, you see,

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