Mary Queen of Scots: The Red Queen (2014)

0歳でスコットランド女王、16歳でフランス王妃となったメアリー・スチュアートは、未亡人となった18歳にスコットランドへ帰国し王位に戻り、女王エリザベスⅠ世が統治する隣国イングランドの王位継承権を主張する。恋愛、結婚、出産を経験し、若く美しく自信にあふれたメアリーに複雑な想いを抱くエリザベス。誰よりも理解し合えたはずの孤独な若き女王たちは、従姉妹でありながら恐れ合い、それぞれ陰謀渦巻く宮廷の中で運命に翻弄されていくのだった…。

Mary Stuart, who was named Queen of Scotland when she was only six days old, is the last Roman Catholic ruler of Scotland. She is imprisoned at the age of 23 by her cousin Elizabeth Tudor, the English Queen and her arch adversary. Nineteen years later the life of Mary is to be ended on the scaffold and with her execution the last threat to Elizabeth's throne has been removed. The two Queens with their contrasting personalities make a dramatic counterpoint to history.

The recently widowed Mary Stuart returns to Scotland to reclaim her throne but is opposed by her half-brother and her own Scottish lords.

A short film depicting the execution of Mary, Queen of the Scots. Mary is brought to the execution block and made to kneel down with her neck over it. The executioner lifts his axe ready to bring it down. After that frame Mary has been replaced by a dummy. The axe comes down and severs the head of the dummy from the body. The executioner picks up the head and shows it around for everyone else to see. One of the first camera tricks to be used in a movie.

The life and death of the Scottish monarch.

A dramatisation based on the exchange of letters between Mary Queen of Scots and her cousin Elizabeth I, detailing the hatred and obsession in their bitter rivalry. Expert historians examine and interpret the royals' motives for the animosity that lasted more than two decades, and which threatened to tear apart the reigning monarch and her kingdom.

The story of the seven pearls of the English Crown, from Henry VIII to 1937; three of them missing.

There are few women in history to have truly stood the test of time but the romance surrounding the ill-fated Mary Queen of Scots has ensured that her story lives on to intrigue and fascinate each new generation.

The Dauphin's widow weds a lord and is executed for plotting against the queen.