I've already written a review excoriating this...but seriously it's now depicting Mary Stuart as a lunatic Catholic zealot. Mary did not name all her servants Mary to honour the Virgin. Her four Scots servants were already called Mary.
Also Mary practiced tolerance. When she returned to Scotland she accepted the establishment of the Protestant religion and practiced Catholicism privately.
The fanatic killing heretics is Mary TUDOR. That is literally her story.
Oh and how did Rahima recognise the letter? Why is she asked to search for letters by anyone? She CAN'T READ. And the hilarious address, honestly: "Mary, Queen of Scots" like it is sent through the post office.
And as if a Catholic court would have a girl with with a Muslim name
I can't believe Samantha Morton involved herself in this. This should be a new genre: fiction with a touch of history. It matters because post-modernism is wrecking everything.
People will believe Catherine murdered Henri or that Diane slashed a man's throat or that peasants were just shot whenever...that Western civilization isn't built on law....see why it matters because why seek to improve something that is basically, essentially, thoroughly corrupt? So things get worse and worse and weaker and weaker...until ...