1561, When she noticed that there were bars on her window

                                

I'm not a fan of the TV series, but I watched it out of the need for change,

  [as it was the time of the COVID-19, resulting in boredom at home, and moving freely in the past.

It was a Spanish and British historical drama television series

                              [produced by Televisión Española and the BBC, with a Spanish and British cast.

As a foreigner who has never studied the history of Northern Europe,

                                                         [I can not comment or judge to express an opinion on any facts

which took place in 16th century England, so what I write is the views of the script alone,

                            [on the other hand no one knows the essential and true motives of the royal acts.

Mary, Queen of the Scots, at the age of 18, returned to Scotland after 13 years in France,

                            [where she longed for her homeland continuously, unceasingly unremittingly.

Queen of France ? then Queen of Scotland ? then claimant to the throne of England ?

                                                                       [A phenomenon unique in world history, admittedly,

Puzzling to a non-Englishman of which resembles an algorithm
                                  [of succession, marriage, ancestors, perhaps incomprehensible politically.

Mary was the daughter of King James V of Scotland and Mary of Guise,
                           [Henry VIII was her great uncle, Mary influenced life in Albion catalytically.

She was born on December 8, 1542, in West Lothian, Scotland and six days later

          [her father, the King, died when she was only six days old, making her queen of Scotland.

Mary was sent to France in 1548 to be the bride of the Dauphin, the young French prince, 

  [in order to secure a Catholic alliance against England, for Catholics an issue, most important.

Given that she was only an infant, in Scotland her mother, Marie de Guise, ruled

                                  [in her place while she lived in France waiting to wed the next king of France.

In 1559, Mary's husband was crowned Francis II, making Mary both the queen of Scotland

   [and France's queen consort, there were rumors that Francis and Mary married after a romance. 

Following her husband Francis’s death, she returned to Scotland from France,

      [where in the mean time had changed Scotland's religion from Catholicism to Protestantism.

so as a Roman Catholic raised in France, Mary found herself an outsider,

                      [managed to rule while creating an atmosphere of religious tolerance with realism.

Following the mysterious death of Mary's second husband, Henry Stewart, Lord Darnley,

                          [and her quick marriage to Bothwell, the Scottish nobility rose up against her,

 compelled her to hand over rule to her son and imprisoned her,

                    [but still in too many noble hearts the semi-French beauty was an "administrateur".

In 1568, Mary escaped from Lochleven Castle, where she was imprisoned

                                                                                      [she raised an army but was soon defeated.
She fled to England, where she sought Elizabeth's protection, but instead of helping,
          [the queen imprisoned Mary, with the queen's fear of losing her throne gone, left, fleeted. 

English Catholics plotted to get Mary, a Catholic herself, onto the throne

                                                        [by assassinating Elizabeth, with the help of a foreign invader,

Mary was brought to trial, found guilty of treason and sentenced to death, 

            [Elizabeth had doubts about the guilt, but a letter from Mary to the rebels persuaded her.

The American author Margaret George writes, “Mary awoke from her nightmare 

                         [with a pounding heart, convinced that she had only imagined Elizabeth's cruel plot,

 a full moon was shining into her chamber, illuminating everything around her in silvery light,

  [that was when she noticed that there were bars on her window, and that trust was her weak spot.

                                                              to be continued

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* ''IT COULD BE OTHERWISE in verse''

Texts and Narration: Odysseus Heavilayias - ROTTERDAM //

Language adjustments and text adaptation: Kellene G Safis -CHICAGO//

Digital adaptation and text editing: Cathy Rapakoulia Mataraga - PIRAEUS //

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