A Remembering Part 2

Honestly as a person who should have some insight into her..smile. I think she was a person born a Queen..and sent away as a child to make an alliance with France to further her families political agenda.. But she was a child.. I don't imagine she had a agenda of her own at age 5. I think she grew up with Francis the future King of France, and grew very close to him...almost like a brother, only she knew she would one day marry him. Once they were married he died not long after.. By age 18 she had basically experienced the full measure of any happiness her small yet important life would ever hold. I believe she was sent away from her home in France because after the Kings death, The queen, Catherine DE Medici of France saw her as a threat to her own rule in France.. It seems like everyone was all about insuring they maintained Power!! GEE..Takes me back to that show the White Queen..such harsh times they were...Everyone was a social climber.. As a woman today in 2014..why would anyone want to be royalty??? But I guess when you were a starving peasant..being royalty looked pretty good. Once back in Scotland I believe her family pushed her to remarry..to produce a heir, and once again establish a political alliance. This Darnley man she married was actually her first cousin and the grandson, of the King of England as was she..Why would you WANT to marry your first cousin..but times were different then and for royals your life really wasn't your own.. okkk, I see where this is going..marrying her first cousin..and blood of a king gives her more claim to the English throne. I believe her new husband was a drunk, and rough man, who only married her as a means to a end..I think that is sad for her..I read her child was taken from her a age 10 months and that she would never see him again.. Wow!! I' don;t even know why that would happen..maybe so James could be raised or groomed to be the political figure he would eventually become. Maybe they didn't trust her with that duty. I read that her new husband wanted to be king of Scotland..and was pushing for that.. I think her family probably had him killed..he was digging to deep and an heir was already produced, he'd served his purpose.. She later married another man, I read he basically raped her so she'd have to marry him..Sigh..he later was run out of Scotland because the people didn't like him..

 I can only speak to what I know now..and really who I am now.. I don't remember the past to clearly.. I think there was a reason I started thinking of her..on the day of her execution..and I guess dreaming of a book where she wrote all these secret love letters, and poems about some man... Which according to everything I can find on the net never existed??? Perhaps that's a true memory..I'm privy too, I'm not certain. But I don't believe Mary was a wicked woman..hell bent on killing her cousin Elizabeth..simply because I wouldn't do that now..but I can see how I could have been manipulated much as I can be now...into things that weren't of my making or design. I think Mary wanted to be free, and wanted to be happy, just like we all do.. If she did plot to do away with Elizabeth I think it was out of a sense of wanting that freedom..I'm sure others behind these plots were in it for others things, power, money, the throne, and religion. But I don't believe Mary was orchestrating all these plots.From what I've read Mary didn't even know Elizabeth..probably because they were never allowed to know each other. I mean Elizabeth grew up knowing her mother was executed by her own father...basically over power, religion, and he wanted someone else.. Once again GEEEE!! Elizabeth I'm sure was just a pawn as was Mary moved around on a chess board to further, Their Sides..political ends.. Elizabeth had her own throne, and the people behind her to worry about.. I really don't blame either of them..I think they were both in impossible situations, manipulated, and driven by forces beyond their control..that culminated in an unfortunate end. I don't believe either of them experienced "Good" lives, and both had all the power, money, and riches in the world..goes to show none of that matters when your not in control of your own life, and you are unloved and unhappy.. Now you can say this is a watered down romanticized notion of who these two women were..Many would say they were both cruel, and ruthless soldiers in a battle between religion and state..But I don't believe that..not because I don't want too, but because I know who we are now..and I don't believe either of us capable of such wickedness. I believe history tells tales of how awful people were because it makes them appear strong, or mesmerizing and its a good story. To often we overlook the truth..of how it really was, because the true story isn't as fantastical!! I believe we all grow and change and hopefully such a tragic past is behind us, and the shortcomings of our past can become strengths in the present.. To my sister:You will always defend the protestant faith, because that is how you were raised..it is your roots as I will always defend the Catholic Church to a point..because that is how I was raised..It's not about who was right then or even now..its about the future...of what is to become..I believe everyone is right in their own way.. Regardless of their faith..As D said yet another tragic battle fought over religion. Every religion out there believes they are right..and that everyone else is crazy or wrong..My challenge to anyone reading this is to love your neighbor as yourself, to not judge, to not look for the worst in a friends faith, but to point out the similarities between those faiths, not exasperate the differences. Find that common ground..we are all people, we all love, we all hurt..we all suffer.. we experience the same plethora of human emotions. Inside we are all the same, despite, religion or race.. If we remembered that we would love one another as we were meant to.