This is CBS Eye on the World.

Here's John Batchelor.

Continuing with Professor Claire Jackson, a fellow at Trinity Hall, a member of the Faculty of History at Cambridge University,

the author of a new book, The Mirror of Great Britain,

The Life of James I, James I, the Sixth of Scotland, James I, the First of England.

And we come now to the part that has dominated conversations by artists and playwrights and dramatists and Hollywood for several hundred years.

The relationship between Elizabeth I of England, Queen Elizabeth, the Virgin Queen,

and Mary Queen of Scots, James I, Mother, who spends all of her life away from her son in correspondence with him, as Elizabeth is in

correspondence with James, two women who know each other intimately through correspondence.

They never meet.

But Professor Claire Jackson is here to help us understand the tension that surrounds James.

It's unbearable to consider what he had to deal with as king, as a teenager, as a child, and then as king.

His two women cannot trust each other.

There are reasons, but still, Professor, what did James make of his mother's deposition and imprisonment all those years?

Did he think it was something he could solve?

Thank you.

He grows up, it's something he can never remember not being king.

So all of his life, he is aware that the only reason he is

king is because his mother was deposed. Probably as a very young child, you know, he doesn't,

he only has the most shadowy notion. Part of the difficulty that confronts him as he goes into

teenage years is that Mary develops ideas of

joint rule. She, by this stage, is imprisoned in England. She is there for 20 years under house

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