Welcome to the history tricks where any resemblance to a boring old history

lesson is purely coincidental. Welcome to part two of our little chat about Elizabeth

the first. So far in our story we have gotten a little bit through her childhood

ascended out to the throne. We've talked a little bit about the game of

tutorshooters and all the men that she could have married and didn't but the

religious and economic climate of that she came into as queen and that she was

developing during her reign. And now we are going to move on just a touch of

foreign policy specifically Elizabeth's relationship with two foreign rulers that

changed her reputation and the direction of the country. First up, Mary Queen of

Scott. So before you start writing us and telling us that she would make a great

episode, you're right she would and we'll cover her and another episode. We're

going to give you the bullet points of her life and then fill in the blanks

later. Do not, no matter what you do, go and watch the CW show reign and think

that you're getting an education Mary Queen of Scott because you are not.

There's a teeny any tiny teeny part that's the truth but most of the show from

the costuming to even the characters in the show are entirely fictional as a

work of fiction. It might be your thing as a work of fact. It is don't even think

it's fat. That's all I want to say about that. Not even remotely authentic. I've

not seen it. So we'll have to rely on Susan. Now see, there's an authentic and then

there's an authentic. There's the tutors. We know there's some inaccuracies. We

also know that they are changing how people appear to make us feel in

modern day the way that the people in that time felt about them. I can

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