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Imagine for a second that you are the Queen of England.

You're young, you're a woman, and the last person to hold your job, your own sister, just executed a bunch of people for being Protestants. The whole country

is a Tinderbox. And right across the border, your Catholic cousin is using a coat of arms that says,

hey, I'm the real queen.

This is the very real situation that Elizabeth I first faced with Mary Queen of Scots.

Mary wasn't just talking the talk. She actually had a plan. And the key to that plan was her formidable mother, Marie of Geese, who held Scotland for the French with a whole

army. So what happens when this powerful key player suddenly dies? So I've been reading the new Tracy

Borman book that's coming out in the U.S. in a couple of weeks on James I first and how he inherited

the crown. And there was a sentence in there that caught my attention. Tracy wrote, on the 11th of

June 1560, Marie of Geese died. There had been conjecture that she was poisoned, but the evidence points

to natural causes. That, my friends, is where our story begins.

We're going to walk through this one death, see how it completely changed the course of

Tudor history.

Hey friend, welcome back to the YouTube channel for the Renaissance English History Podcast.

I am your host, Heather, and I have been podcasting on Tudor England since 2009 with my show,

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