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For the imperial family, the supremacy is power, and morality and affection should be eradicated without hesitation once they become obstacles to power, which is the law of power games.
On March 24, 1603, when Elizabeth I of the Tudor Dynasty had completed the last journey of her legendary life and was not willing to close her eyes and sleep for the first time, the palace stretched out a ventilated hand and threw a ring on the grass. The messenger who had been waiting for many days immediately turned on his horse and galloped for two days and two nights to tell the news to Mary, queen of Scots: James VI, as the heir of Elizabeth I, who had huddled in Edinburgh, Scotland, and had waited for this moment for a little half of his life.
Thirty-seven years ago, on the same path, along the opposite path, there was a messenger on horseback who informed Elizabeth I of the birth of a baby boy (later James VI) from Mary, Queen of Scots. It is said that the good news of his niece brought a heavy blow to the "Virgin Queen" in Stephen. In Zweig's The Tragedy of the Queen of Scotland, Elizabeth I "groaned and fell into a chair and cried loudly", shouting, "The Queen of Scotland has given birth to a son, and I am a dead branch that does not bear seeds!" ”
The Queen of England's overreaction is understandable, after all, European Catholics regard Mary of Scotland. Stuart is the legitimate heir to the Throne of England, and Mary, who is known as the "Queen of the Wind" by posterity, was once a popular queen in France, and there are many clusters in Europe, and the Scottish region that currently rules is closely linked to England, and is eager for Elizabeth's throne. In a tacit situation between the two sides, the little James born this time is a descendant of Mary and Darren Ray, the great-grandson of the English nobleman Henry VIII, and is also a heavy chip for Mary to nail her succession to the throne.
However, everything can be laughed best at the end, when she was holding the baby in her arms, Mary, who thought she had defeated Elizabeth, would not have thought that the baby in her hand had defected to Elizabeth and gave herself a fatal blow when she became an adult.
However, this mother and son have no other communication except for blood connection. It's a bit of dog blood, but the real plot of history is that when James VI was still in his womb, his mother Mary. Stuart probably just gave his dad a green hat, and Mary had a man named David. Li Qiao's favorite courtiers were from Italy, and because of their close contact with the queen, they were jealous of the queen's husband, and organized some nobles to poke the Italian bard into a sieve in front of the queen. So as soon as Mary recovered from confinement (if they were confinement), she quickly decided to take revenge. Not only did she find a daring jazz boswell to help her frame her husband (sending him to the West with a bomb), but she also unabashedly married the murderer, thus exposing her identity as an accomplice in front of the whole of Europe, and quickly losing support and the throne.
Later Mary. Stuart's situation became more and more miserable, losing the war, imprisoning, wandering the streets, escaping, calling for help in England, and then being put under house arrest by Elizabeth I in a castle on the outskirts of England. At first Mary was a young maniac, giving birth to James without the heart to take care of, directly throwing it to the maid, and committing her own wayward death; by the time the struggle was lost and she wanted to get her son back from the victorious Scottish nobleman, it was almost impossible, and the last time she saw her son was when he was ten months old, and there was only a small correspondence between the two sides when he became an adult.
Therefore, James never had the impression of a mother in his mind, only the rumors in his ears: the image of a woman who murdered his own father, arrogant, and debauched, perhaps in his heart, there was also a desire for attachment to his mother, but for the name Mary, his most touching feeling was fear: the fear that she would come back and take his throne.
Mary was imprisoned by Elizabeth for twenty-five years, from the age of twenty-five to the age of fifty, Elizabeth I was famous for cutting doors, but spent enough silver on the queen's prisoner's ability to eat and wear. Unlike the prisoners in the Tower of London, Mary was forbidden to leave the country, but still enjoyed the queen's life, with her own cook, tailor, security guard, doctor, maid and a large group of other people, who could also watch plays and hunt, and even go to the nobles' homes and write letters—of course, all this was under the secret supervision of Elizabeth's minister, Cecilde, so Elizabeth knew of Mary's correspondence with James.
In a letter to her adult son, Mary described her tragic situation as a prisoner of the English order, asking James to send troops to attack England to rescue her mother, promising that if successful, she would raise her life and give up the throne to James; but in James's view, her mother had already lost the throne when she fled the country in a hurry, so why give up the throne? On the other hand, Elizabeth, who had the information, immediately contacted James VI and promised that as long as he promised to ignore Mary's affairs, not only would the Throne of Scotland naturally belong to him in the future, but he would also be the first of the heirs to the throne of England, and Elizabeth also gave this poor Scottish relative an annual allowance of five thousand pounds and a number of horses to support his rule in his small kingdom.
So it's not hard to understand why, at the moment of James VI's ascension to the throne in Scotland, his biological mother sent not a congratulatory letter from England but a curse, reprimanding him for not only abandoning her birth mother, but also "stealing" her throne; and the new king, who had signed an agreement with Elizabeth, immediately issued a decree to take Mary forever. Stuart's title of Queen with all rights.
Finally, Elizabeth I took away not only the other side's freedom in the Queen's war, but also the other side's throne and flesh and blood, and then her rope was to be further tightened.
In 1587, the Queen of the Winds became the Queen of severed heads. Mary Stuart's head rolled a trail of blood on the guillotine, and it is said that her dog was mourning for a long time and did not want to leave, which may be the only "relative" who is sincerely angry with her.
And her aunt, Elizabeth I, who in the letters referred to her as a sister, was the one who signed her beheading order, and at this time she pretended to be grief-stricken and wrote to the monarchs of Europe to explain that this was a trap by her subordinates, that she would never allow such a tragedy to happen, and even said, "Mary's death is more unbearable for me than the loss of my biological father." ”
Mary's own son, James VI, while pretending to rebuke the atrocities of England, privately corresponded with Elizabeth, asking her to confirm that her inheritance status was not shaken, and after receiving a positive reply, he rode the horse that Elizabeth had given him and spent the silver that Elizabeth gave him to hunt. What he wanted was the land and throne of two queens, and now one was dead, only an hour away from the other.
When Elizabeth died, James waited for fifteen years until the scene at the beginning of the article, and thus the feud between the two queens was completely over, and Mary was buried by James in Westminster Abbey, no more than six meters away from Elizabeth—when she was alive, the two had never been so close.
James VI rushed from Scotland to England, transformed into James I of England, and opened the Stuart dynasty. This dynasty endured for several generations, and eventually ended in extinction.