Скачать или смотреть Mary, Queen of Scots: Born a Queen, Raised as a Pawn (1542–1558)

Six days after her birth, Mary Stuart became Queen of Scots—and a prize in a brutal power game. This video follows her early life from the deathbed of James V through a kingdom torn between rival regents, religious factions, and foreign ambitions. We trace Cardinal Beaton versus the Earl of Arran, Henry VIII’s “diplomatic” trap in the Treaty of Greenwich, and the devastating wars of the Rough Wooing that scorched Scotland to force an English marriage. Caught between survival and sovereignty, Mary’s mother, Marie de Guise, chose the Auld Alliance, sending the child-queen to France. There, Mary was polished into a Valois asset, betrothed to the Dauphin Francis and—under secret instruments—bound to French interests in ways no Scottish parliament would have allowed. From infant coronation to a carefully staged royal wedding, this is the story of how a girl born to rule was shaped, traded, and controlled by empires—and what Scotland paid for her protection.