Mary Queen of Scots with Kate Williams
Dan Snow's History Hit
History Hit
4.7 • 13.7K Ratings
🗓️ 8 December 2020
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Dan Snow and Kate Williams talk about the rise and fall of Mary Queen of Scots.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, folks, Dan Snow here. |
| 0:01.6 | I am throwing a party to celebrate 10 years of Dan Snow's history hit. |
| 0:06.1 | I'd love for you to be there. |
| 0:07.5 | Join me for a very special live recording of the podcast in London, in England on the 12th of September to celebrate the 10 years. |
| 0:14.1 | You can find out more about it and get tickets with the link in the show notes. |
| 0:17.5 | Look forward to seeing you there. |
| 0:24.1 | Hi, everybody. Hi, welcome to Dan Snow's history here. I've got somebody with a very |
| 0:28.4 | apt title on the podcast today. I've got Kate Williams. She's a professor of public |
| 0:32.0 | engagement with history at the University of Reading. And let me tell you, she is a brilliant |
| 0:36.1 | engager of the public with history. She's as |
| 0:39.0 | charismatic as she is talented and knowledgeable. She's here. This is actually a repeat of a podcast |
| 0:43.8 | through a couple of years ago on Mary Queen of Scots. Now, the reason I'm repeating this podcast |
| 0:47.6 | is because it's a big week for Mary. A lot of big important career milestones. She was born on |
| 0:53.3 | the 8th of December 1542. |
| 0:55.5 | And then this is not good for people worrying about how quickly they're ascending the greasy |
| 0:59.1 | pole. She became queen just a few days later on the 14th of December 1542. So if you're worried |
| 1:05.0 | about how fast you're getting there in life wherever there is, Mary, this podcast might not be for you. But then again, |
| 1:12.5 | it might be for you because it neatly demonstrates that sometimes it's not the title on the door. |
| 1:17.2 | It's not the big corner office with the nice view because Mary had an unenviable life. |
| 1:22.6 | She was briefly a queen of both Scotland and France. She suffered suffered the loss of a husband there. She then |
| 1:29.4 | returned to Scotland. She had a pretty good claim. Don't tell Elizabeth Schroeder, I said this, |
| 1:34.2 | but she had a pretty good claim to the throne of England. And therefore, she was seen as a threat. |
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