Mary, Queen of Scots
Dan Snow's History Hit
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🗓️ 3 November 2023
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Summary
This is the story of the incredible rise and fall of Mary, Queen of Scots. She was queen of Scotland, she was queen of France, and she could have been queen of England. She led armies, lived as a fugitive, became embroiled in love affairs and spent nearly two decades in jail.
Dan is joined by the great Kate Williams, a presenter, historian and professor at Reading University, to take us through the twists and turns of Mary's tumultuous life.
Produced by James Hickmann and edited by Dougal Patmore.
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| 0:00.0 | I have a welcome dance notes history. So we've got an episode from one of our sibling |
| 0:03.8 | podcasts. It's Professor Susanna Lipskums, not just the cheweders. So this is what you |
| 0:08.7 | got to remember. She is one of the world's great experts on the cheweders. One of the |
| 0:13.6 | world's greatest living chewed historians. She is going to talk to Kate Williams. Kate |
| 0:19.0 | Williams has written the most recent, the most comprehensive, the most celebrated and |
| 0:23.4 | acclaimed, biography of Mary Queen of Scots. So these two world renowned historians are |
| 0:29.4 | going to discuss Mary Queen of Scots. There is no other conversation on Earth at the moment |
| 0:33.7 | about Mary Queen of Scots with more authoritative participants. As you're listening to this |
| 0:38.0 | conversation, know that you are getting the latest scholarship from the two best communicators. |
| 0:43.6 | There is no other content on planet Earth about this subject that is better than what you're |
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| 1:07.7 | but surely overtaking the old lumbering giant that is dance knows history here. It happens. |
| 1:15.4 | It's natural folks. I'm cool with it. So listen to episode of Mary Queen of Scots. We |
| 1:19.3 | decided to speak a great episode to share because it's brilliant and did very well when |
| 1:22.4 | it went out on the not just the cheweders' feed, but also because the tragic news recently |
| 1:26.4 | Mary Queen of Scots's rosary beads were stolen from our little castle on the south coast |
| 1:32.2 | of England. It's absolutely tragic, tragic theft. I filmed with those, history.tv and I |
| 1:38.3 | feel very privileged to have seen them before they disappear off into some criminal underworld. |
| 1:42.8 | So very, very sad. If you were the thief, if you were the thief, move to seal them because |
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