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Mary Queen of Scots

DramaHistory

Directed by Josie Rourke

In 1561, Mary Stuart, widow of the King of France, returns to Scotland, reclaims her rightful throne and menaces the future of Queen Elizabeth I as ruler of England, because she has a legitimate claim to the English throne. Betrayals, rebellions, conspiracies and their own life choices imperil both Queens. They experience the bitter cost of power, until their tragic fate is finally fulfilled. From TMDB

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Mary Queen of Scots is a 2018 drama history film, directed by Josie Rourke, starring Saoirse Ronan, Margot Robbie and Jack Lowden.

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  • Zombie @[email protected]Lemmy · May 31, 2026

    Huntly Castle, Scotland [MIC]. ![](https://feddit.uk/pictrs/image/60a15d1e-9369-497d-ba18-95cce26e16d5.webp) ![](https://feddit.uk/pictrs/image/87e97fea-5e90-4e4a-a3e8-828fdc9108ef.webp) ![](https://feddit.uk/pictrs/image/295b818c-9ac2-4145-a54c-40d1fac4d1b3.webp) There's a lot of history at Huntly, so strap yourself in, this is a long one! >The castle was originally built by Duncan II, Earl of Fife, on the Strathbogie estate sometime around 1180 and 1190.[2][1] The castle became known as…

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  • Michael Baumann @baumann.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 25, 2026

    I knew someone was going to say this and I'm sorry, it's not Catholic. When I say "Calvinist" I don't mean your friendly neighborhood PCUSA, I'm talking about the spiteful, mean Scottish Calvinists, the David Tennant-in-the-Mary Queen of Scots-Movie type guys

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  • Bruce P 🐻‍❄️🐻🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏊🏼‍♂️ @bearden64.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 22, 2025

    Watching the 1971 film of Mary Queen of Scots. It’s all a bit ‘Carry On’. A 30 yo Vanessa Redgrave is playing the 19 yo Mary. At least Glenda Jackson as QE1 is more age appropriate.

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  • Video Store Heiress @videostoreheiress.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 20, 2025

    I was born in 1980... l'm choosing one movie per day from each year to today. “England does not look so different from Scotland…” “Aye, they are sisters…” Mary Queen of Scots is so good that I had to put it on!!! 🍿🎬🎥 📺📽️ #filmsky #moviesky #moviechallenge Day 39/45 2018

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  • Mark A. Latham @markalatham.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 15, 2026

    Watching Mary Queen of Scots on Netflix. Finding it hard to follow because we both keep going, "It's him, out of that thing!" It is the most "It's him, out of that thing!" film I've ever seen.

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  • James C @iguandonjim.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 12, 2026

    Not historical but geographical - in the awful Mary Queen of Scots film, Saoirse Ronan is deported to England on a boat by sailing due south from a port at Edinburgh

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  • Noun Verber 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇺🇦🇵🇸 @froblivion.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 12, 2026

    Many such cases- the Mary Queen of Scots netflix movie had Scotland's (and France's) Renaissance Queen hiding out in some cave thing that looked like it came from Game of Thrones, rather than the Gothic palace Lizzie I was in, or the historical palace of Linlithgow, where Mary was actually born:

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  • John @johnlk.bsky.socialBluesky · May 17, 2026

    Gemma Chan played Bess of Hardwick in a Mary Queen of Scots movie.

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  • Dr Elizabeth Norton @enortonhistory.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 24, 2025

    Sadly The Loves of Mary Queen of Scots, a 1923 silent film is lost. As a result this scene, where Mary shows Women Who Ruled the World: 5000 Years of Female Monarchy to courtiers dubious about female rule can only be imagined. Oddly it didn’t appear in later depictions of Mary #womenwhoruledtheworld

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  • Xoe Valk @x03v.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 23, 2024

    I'm obsessed with the sky & have way too many cloud, sunset, sunrise, & storm pictures. When I find a movie, show, or song that I love, I'll rewatch or relisten to it hundreds of times. I love history. Especially American Revolution & Mary, Queen of Scots history. Different worlds, same planet.

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  • Andy 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @a-ghalldachd.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 16, 2026

    Went to watch the Mary Queen of Scots film with Saoirse Ronan and Margot Robbie the other year. Turned it off after 5 minutes, the first scene was set in 'Edinburgh Castle' which was...in the middle of some dark forest?

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  • Neil Cooper @neilcooper.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 13, 2025

    Wanna hear Ivor Cutler’s ACTUAL harmonium played by Stefan Maurice with Hamish Hawk? Check out Front Row now on BBC Sounds, also featuring Mary, Queen of Scots, Film Festival plus me and Fergus Morgan doing the Fringe, all helmed by Kirsty Wark. The harmonium’s ace. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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  • Serrels @serrels.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 1, 2025

    Quick review of everything I watched on the plane to Scotland and back. White Lotus S2: so fucking good White Lotus S3: almost as good Mary Queen of Scots: pish Minecraft movie: way better than I expected.

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  • OnlyMe @chr1stop4.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 11, 2025

    Antonia Clarke is one of the most venomous Mary Queen Of Scots I've ever seen on film or tv, in The Serpent Queen. She is pure poison. #MaryQueenOfScots #History

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  • Auntie Syzygy @auntiesyzygy.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 15, 2024

    Re-watched The Quiller Memorandum on TV yesterday. Very atmospheric opening sequence, and perfect soundtrack from John Barry. What a wonderful composer he was for film, so many of my favourite scores: Lion in Winter, Mary Queen of Scots, Man for All Seasons, Zulu, and all those Bonds 😍

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  • Alex Epstein @alexmakesstuffup.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 7, 2026

    We watched Mary, Queen of Scots (2018), starring Saoirse Ronan, with Margot Robbie as Elizabeth I. Couldn't help thinking that Robbie could have brought some of the crazy the role of Mary needed, and Ronan could have been the haughty, stiff and oddly weak Queen Bess, as the movie has her portrayed.

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  • Pocrab Truther @julesfurious.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 7, 2026

    I keep trying to watch the 2018 Mary Queen of Scots movie, because Ronan and Robbie are both spectacular, but I keep getting too angry by all the loser men around both of them making it hard for them to girlboss

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  • Biopic: A Podcast Story @biopic-podcast.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 28, 2026

    On this day in 1880 notorious idea thief Thomas Edison received a patent for the electric incandescent lamp. #filmsky 15 years later, he made “The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots,” which might be the first biopic. It’s also 11 seconds long. Episode here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...

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  • LibraryThing @librarything.comBluesky · Dec 8, 2025

    Today is the birthday of Mary Stuart—AKA, Mary, Queen of Scots. A figure whose life story has been debated and retold many times, in literature and in film, she met her tragic end in 1587, when she was beheaded. #MaryQueenofScots #MaryStuart #💙📚 #Booksky

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  • Miss Aranel @missaranel.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 19, 2024

    He's certainly the brightest point in the Mary Queen of Scots movie.

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  • Jamie J @slightlyflightyone.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 28, 2024

    Jam fact: I use the Internet Archive’s 2.5MB MPEG-1 encoding of the 1895 short film “The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots” extensively in my testing of post-processing chains for low-resolution, grainy images and videos archive.org/details/Exec...

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  • Dr Alan Montgomery @classicalalan.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 31, 2023

    I've just noticed that the 1971 film Mary Queen of Scots is on the i-Player. So that's my afternoon sorted!

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  • Nona @nonagoff.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 11, 2026

    Got suckered into a movie about Mary Queen of Scots and it’s now 2am. Those damn Tudor’s and Stewart’s being my Kardashion’s.

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  • Lauren Thompson @laurenfacall.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 30, 2026

    30 January 1937 – Vanessa Redgrave, 89, English actress OscarNom: Morgan A Suitable Case for Treatment (1966) Isadora * Mary Queen of Scots * Bostonians * Howards End (1992) Julia (1977) Oscar Speech to JDL who firebombed cinema showing her #Palestine film www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

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  • Biopic: A Podcast Story @biopic-podcast.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 25, 2025

    Biopic: A Podcast Story presents Episode 71: The Execution of Mary Stuart. It’s our oldest film so far and we may have asked too much from 1895. #movies #biopic #maryqueenofscots Download here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...

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  • Igor Harb @kalanderq.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 15, 2025

    Yes, Mary, Queen of Scots. They even made a film with Saoirse Ronan about it.

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  • This Is My Glasgow @[email protected]Mastodon · Feb 16, 2025

    Dumbarton Rock, a 330 million year old volcanic plug on the northern edge of the Clyde to the west of Glasgow that is home to Dumbarton Castle. A military stronghold for many centuries, it was to here that Mary, Queen of Scots was heading after her escape from Lochleven Castle in 1568 when she was intercepted by the Earl of Moray and was forced to fight the Battle of Langside (now on the Southside of Glasgow). Cont./ #glasgow #dumbarton #maryqueenofscots #scottishhistory #dumbartonrock

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  • G M Thomas FRSA FRAS @japanauthor.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 12, 2024

    The 14th century cloisters in Gloucester Cathedral are significant architecturally but have a new life as a film location. Productions include The Hollow Crown, Wolf Hall, Father Brown, Mary Queen of Scots, The Spanish Princess, and, notably, a number of the Harry Potter films.

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  • GAYVIATOR ✈️⚜️ @quasargay.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 29, 2024

    I need a Time Machine so I go talk to Mary, Queen of Scots. I know this movie is a dramatization but this is wild.

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  • Disaster Ship Blonde @disastershipblonde.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 28, 2024

    I'm watching the recent Mary Queen of Scots movie, and t's drinking me crazy how they keep teasing Zadok the Priest. That music is from 160 years after Mary's death! The could at least have the decency to use this version. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzMa...

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  • Ann Foster @vulgarhistory.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 20, 2023

    We’re going YouTube live tomorrow for an unhinged discussion of the frankly, unhinged 2018 Mary Queen of Scots film. Can’t wait to see you all there!! www.youtube.com/live/_089jR4...

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  • Demon Dan Monster @danielmosier.bsky.socialBluesky · May 16, 2026

    The 2018 “Mary Queen of Scots” movie is worth watching for David Tennant’s majestic Gandalf beard

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  • John Br👻OoOOOoOoo👻ks @johnbrooks.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 7, 2026

    The "Mary Queen of Scots" movie actually did this pretty effectively!

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  • Colin @yrcnr.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 28, 2026

    don’t jump me for this, but I actually kinda liked that Mary, Queen of Scots movie with Saoirse Ronan.

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  • Evan S @greenshreeves-51.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 18, 2026

    Reminds me of recent film on Elizabeth and Mary Queen of Scots meeting through veils!

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  • Judanne @judsi.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 21, 2025

    At least that happened at the end of the film. I watched the first few minutes of Mary Queen Of Scots last night and turned it off and deleted it from my list because the actress spoke with a Scots accent instead of a French one. (Yes, I'm on the spectrum.)

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  • SpauldZILLA @spauldzilla.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 7, 2025

    Revisiting the 1971 film Mary, Queen of Scots brings to mind the many portrayals of Queen Elizabeth I and Mary, Queen of Scots in cinema. This raises the question: which actors have delivered the most memorable performances of these two iconic queens?

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  • Alex aka Muscato @cafemuscato.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 30, 2025

    As a child I was obsessed with the then TV staple Mary, Queen of Scots, in large part I suspect because she and Glenda were doing such capital-A movie-star Acting. My only chance to see her onstage was Vita and Virginia, a vehicle best described as “slight.” Still… she was wondrous.

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  • Lauren Thompson @laurenfacall.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 30, 2025

    30 January 1937 – Vanessa Redgrave, 88, English actress. Stage, film debut 1958. Blowup (1966) A Man For All Seasons * Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment (OscarNom) Camelot * Isadora (OscarNom) * The Devils * Mary, Queen of Scots (OscarNom) * Julia (Oscar) * Yanks * Murder on the Orient Express

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  • Alex Says Stuff @alexsaysstuff.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 3, 2025

    Aah yes, that's the kind of thing I was after, particularly as I just watched the Mary Queen of Scots film and thought I'd love a longer series 😅

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  • Bianca Michelle Parker 🏳️‍⚧️📚 @bumblebigirl.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 18, 2024

    Will never forget the Mary Queen of Scots movie from a few years back where she's totally a trans ally. Which is completely compatible with Roman Catholicism in the 1500s.

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  • Tiffany⸆⸉ @tiffanyclay.devBluesky · Jul 21, 2024

    I absolutely LOVED Mary Queen of Scots, but her mother had no role in the film. The film’s score was sublime

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  • Destide @[email protected]Lemmy · Nov 16, 2023

    Pedal the low road: cycling coast-to-coast across southern Scotland. Pedal the low road: cycling coast-to-coast across southern Scotland headphone stoped share more Ad Follow Story by Stuart Kenny • 3mo The weather-beaten curves of a battered stone wall guide me out of Langholm, an idyllic old textile town tucked between the hills of the Esk valley, eight miles north of the English border. As I pedal slowly around a steep corner, a lamb and her mother, grazing on the grassy fringes, scurry…

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  • michele_did_it @michelejoined.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 9, 2026

    Sex, Lies, and Video Games: The Movie There's Something About Mary Queen of Scots

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  • Shanchat 🏴‍☠️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @shanchat.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 12, 2026

    And the Mary Queen of Scots film with Saoirse Ronan.

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  • Graeme Swanson @swansonian.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 25, 2026

    I think he’s doing his own accent in that Mary Queen of Scots film where he met his future wife but I remember someone Scottish saying his Scottish accent in that was very convincing. Maybe he *looks* more English than Scottish (healthy)

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  • Save Redland Library @saveredlandlibr.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 12, 2026

    4:05pm TODAY on @Film4 The 1971 #Historical #Drama film🎥 “MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS” directed by Charles Jarrott from a screenplay by John Hale 🌟 Vanessa Redgrave, Glenda Jackson, Timothy Dalton, Nigel Davenport, Patrick McGoohan, Trevor Howard, Ian Holm

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  • NeverPaint 🐛🪲🕷️ @neverpaint.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 16, 2026

    Nr 5.: Mary Queen of Scots (2018 film) Not a big history nerd, nor very familiar with Mary Stuart's history of cinematic adaptations. Had to read Schiller's drama about her in school. Just whelmed by this film. Saoirse Ronan is acting a lot and that's always cool.

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  • Alchemic Hues 🇨🇦 @scheu.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 26, 2025

    The 1971 Mary Queen of Scots film is so dull. It's only a little interesting because I know relatively little about the Stuarts.

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  • Save Redland Library @saveredlandlibr.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 21, 2025

    12:15pm TODAY on @BBCTwo The 1971 #Historical Drama film🎥 “MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS” directed by Charles Jarrott from a screenplay by John Hale 🌟 Vanessa Redgrave, Glenda Jackson, Timothy Dalton, Nigel Davenport, Patrick McGoohan, Trevor Howard, Ian Holm

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  • Jason/Jonas/Jack oh my..... @jason66762.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 11, 2025

    Pretty decent film. Both Burton and Bujold deserved their Oscar noms. Luscious sets and costumes. The success of the film inspired the making of another period costume drama "MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS". Well worth a view or two.

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  • Bathory @bathory1971.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 14, 2025

    I play on my PS5 more..let's see i watched a movie last night on Amazon Prime Mary Queen of Scots (2018) and ...it wasn't really anything to write home about. I fell asleep at ine point and my mom woke me up lol

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  • I’ve Scene That! @scenethatreviews.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 7, 2025

    This week in the Margot Robbie filmography watch through I take a look at… Mary Queen of Scots (2018) Have you seen it? What did you think of it? #Filmsky #Movies #VOD #MargotRobbie #Blog #Review scenethatreviews.com/mary-queen-o...

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  • Cornovia Postcards @[email protected]Mastodon · Aug 1, 2025

    Queen Mary's Tower, Manor Castle, Sheffield, Yorkshire, c.1902 - Postcard https://www.ebid.net/uk/for-sale/queen-mary-s-tower-manor-castle-sheffield-yorkshire-c-1902-postcard-222940191.htm #Sheffield #ManorCastle #MaryQueenOfScots

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  • Movies • TV Shows & Physical Bluray Media 🍿 @movies-on-sale.bsky.socialBluesky · May 27, 2025

    The (movie) Mary Queen of Scots (4K) is available today on (iTunes)(US) for $6.99 Cast: Saoirse Ronan, Margot Robbie, Jack Lowden, Joe Alwyn, David Tennant, Guy Pearce Genre: (Biography) (Movies Anywhere) Trailer & Reviews : www.rottentomatoes.com/m/mary_queen...

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  • This Is My Glasgow @[email protected]Mastodon · Mar 30, 2025

    Queen Mary's Stone on Court Knowe in the Cathcart area of Glasgow. This stone supposedly marks the spot where Mary Queen of Scots watched the Battle of Langside in 1568, where her army was soundly beaten. However, it seems unlikely that this was the actual spot from where she watched the battle as it was close to Cathcart Castle, which was held by a supporter of her opponent, James Stewart, Earl of Moray. #glasgow #glasgowhistory #maryqueenofscots #cathcart

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  • Trixie 🌸🇨🇦 @trixie57.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 14, 2025

    Yeah I know lol. Just made me think of that movie.😂🤣 I loved that series called THE TUDORS. Have you seen REIGN? That one is about France and Scotland, and the relationship between Francis and Mary Queen of Scots. It was so good, I watched it twice. Well I didn’t finish it the second time yet.

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  • Carol-Ann 🎨🌹🏳️‍🌈 @detectivecaz.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 2, 2025

    "I forgive you with all my heart, for now I hope you shall make an end of all my troubles. For In my end is my beginning.” My finished piece of Mary Queen of Scots portrayed by Vanessa Redgrave from the 1971 movie.

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  • Caro Kinkead @carokinkead.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 10, 2024

    no context or even attribution. Just random images varying widely in quality and accuracy. There were notes, all hand lwritten, including one on a drawing of Mary, Queen of Scots going to the block that said “finale.” If you look at the film when young Bess, now queen, makes her last appearance,

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  • Cath M 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💍 @catherloki.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 8, 2024

    Funny that literally two days after a post was going around on tumblr about both Jack Lowden and Ismael Cruz Córdova being in Mary Queen of Scots, this is the film my husband has decided we're watching tonight 🤣 (seen it before. Also it's really difficult seeing David Tennant as an utter bastard.)

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