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[00:14.59]Chapter 7 Bothwell
[00:20.18]Soon everyone in Europe heard the news．
[00:24.59]The Queen of France and the Queen of England wrote angry letters to me．
[00:30.67]Who killed the King? they asked．
[00:36.14]I was very unhappy at this time, James．
[00:40.54]We looked for the killers,
[00:42.73]but we could not find them．
[00:45.68]Please believe me, James．
[00:48.85]The Scots lords are difficult men．
[00:52.74]Some were friends, some were enemies,
[00:57.19]but they changed all the time．
[01:01.93]Many people in Scotland said：
[01:04.72]'Bothwell killed Lord Darnley．
[01:08.63]'I heard them, outside the castle, and in the town．
[01:14.63]But I never believed it．
[01:17.65]People in Edinburgh sold horrible stories
[01:20.75]and pictures of Bothwell the same day that Darnley died．
[01:27.40]It was too soon．
[01:30.46]Perhaps Darnley's killers wrote these stories about Bothwell,
[01:35.81]before they killed Darnley．
[01:40.40]I don't think Lord Bothwell killed your father,James．
[01:46.20]He was a good friend to me in difficult times．
[01:51.25]He was a good strong, clever man,
[01:56.03]and he worked hard．
[01:58.28]I liked that．
[02:00.49]A lot of women liked him,I think．
[02:05.14]Three times that spring, he asked me to marry him．
[02:10.72]He had a wife, and I could not marry again, so soon． I
[02:16.81]asked him to wait．
[02:20.47]Then, on 24th April,
[02:23.80]I rode out of Edinburgh to the north．
[02:27.50]I had five or six friends with me．
[02:31.94]Six miles outside the town,
[02:35.30]Lord Bothwell met us, with an army．
[02:41.05]'Why are you here,my lord?'I said．
[02:45.85]He smiled．' Because I want to meet you, Mary,'
[02:52.22]he said．'I want you to come with me to my castle．
[02:58.81]'He rode next to me,
[03:01.03]and his men rode between me and my friends．
[03:05.91]I was afraid,and a little excited,too．
[03:11.75]'But,my lord,you can't do this!'
[03:15.36]I said．'I don't want to come with you now．'
[03:22.11]'But I want you, Mary,'he said．
[03:26.12]'Your friends can't stop me．
[03:28.75]I love you, and I want to marry you．
[03:33.18]What's wrong with that?'
[03:36.13]I said nothing．What could I say?
[03:42.73]I liked him,and he had an army．
[03:47.13]I had only six friends．
[03:50.94]So I rode with him to his castle in Dunbar,
[03:57.43]and stayed there two weeks．
[04:00.65]And then… He was a strong man, and I was only a woman．
[04:08.10]And I did like him, James．
[04:11.06]I liked him very much．
[04:14.49]After two weeks in Dunbar,
[04:16.93]Bothwell and I rode back to Edinburgh．
[04:20.91]His wife did not want him,
[04:23.43]and was happy to divorce him．
[04:26.31]So,on 15th May 1567, I married him．
[04:35.22]He was a good man, James．
[04:38.09]A much better man than your father．
[04:41.52]I needed a strong man to help me rule the country．
[04:47.57]But I was wrong． I understand that now．
[04:54.13]All the Scots lords were afraid of Bothwell,
[04:58.13]and many of them were his enemies．
[05:02.04]They had an army, and on 15th June,
[05:06.25]Bothwell and I rode out to fight them．
[05:12.31]We met them at Carberry Hill．
[05:16.07]It was a hot day, and the two big armies stood,
[05:21.39]and looked, and waited．
[05:26.32]Their army had a big flag with a picture of your poor dead father,
[05:32.55]Darnley, on it．
[05:35.74]Under the picture, there were the words
[05:39.36]'Find my killers, oh God．'
[05:44.63]'Come on, my lord,'I said to Bothwell．'
[05:49.31]Our army is better than theirs-let's fight them!'
[05:55.65]Both well rode up and down, and talked to his men．
[06:01.96]But they didn't want to fight．
[06:05.16]They talked, and looked at the flag, and waited．
[06:11.26]Then some of them walked home．
[06:15.73]At five o'clock that evening Lord Kirkcaldy rode from his army to talk to us．
[06:24.10]He said to me,'My lady, leave your husband,
[06:29.00]and come with us．
[06:31.13]We don't want men to die．'
[06:35.81]And so, because our men didn't want to fight,
[06:40.51]I went with him．
[06:44.07]It was a very bad day for me．
[06:47.48]They took me back to Edinburgh,
[06:49.76]and people in the streets screamed at me：
[06:53.22]'Kill the woman!
[06:54.23]She sleeps with her husband's killer!
[06:57.23]We want James to be King! Kill her now!'
[07:03.47]I was unhappy, and afraid,
[07:07.23]and I was pregnant again．
[07:11.75]They took me to Lochleven Castle,
[07:14.85]and put me in a room like a prison．
[07:19.14]There, I did not eat for two weeks,
[07:23.55]and Bothwell's children-
[07:26.26]there were two babies-were born dead．
[07:31.34]I nearly died too-I was so angry and tired and ill．
[07:40.52]Then, one day after the babies died,
[07:44.83]Lord Lindsay gave me a letter．
[07:48.07]It said：
[07:50.16]I,Mary, Queen of Scots,
[07:53.46]give the kingdom of Scotland to my son, James．
[07:58.87]From today, James is the new King of Scots．
[08:05.74]But because he is a child, the Earl of Moray,
[08:12.69]my half-brother, can rule the country for him．
[08:19.76]Because I was afraid, and tired,
[08:22.86]and ill, I wrote my name on the letter：
[08:28.15]Mary． But it is not important,
[08:32.67]James,it doesn't change anything．
[08:36.78]I am Queen of Scots, not you．
[08:41.20]That letter changes nothing．
[08:45.16]Bothwell went over the sea,
[08:48.10]and died in a prison in Denmark．
[08:53.13]I was a prisoner in Lochleven for a year．
[08:58.36]A lot of people in Europe were angry about that．
[09:03.57]Queen Elizabeth wrote to the Earl of Moray．
[09:07.18]'You cannot keep a Queen in prison,'she said．
[09:12.00]'It is very wrong!'I was pleased about that．
[09:18.29]But Moray didn't listen．
[09:21.88]Lord Douglas lived in the castle,
[09:24.75]and his young son,William,liked me．
[09:29.47]One day, there was a wedding in the castle．
[09:34.50]People sang and danced and drank．
[09:39.31]William Douglas gave me some old women's clothes．
[09:44.79]I put the clothes on,
[09:47.03]and walked quietly out of the castle with him．
[09:51.86]He shut the castle door behind us,
[09:54.84]to keep his father's friends in．
[09:58.53]Then we got on some horses,
[10:01.52]and rode away through the night．
[10:06.16]All my friends came back to me．
[10:09.65]Soon I had a big army．
[10:12.71]'Mary is our Queen again!'
[10:15.29]people said．'Give her back her son!'
[10:19.96]You were in Earl Moray's castle,
[10:25.05]James, so I came to fight him．
[10:29.56]I rode with my army to Langside,
[10:33.00]near Glasgow．And there…
[10:37.79]There, James…
[10:40.49]There, my son, I lost the fight．
[10:47.54]I am so sorry． I had many good,
[10:52.86]strong men in my army,
[10:56.36]but Earl Moray's men were stronger．
[11:00.95]Many of my men died, and some ran away．
[11:06.88]After the fight, I ran away too．
[11:11.76]I did not want to go to prison again．
[11:15.06]So I rode south, to England．
[11:20.34]'Queen Elizabeth wants to help me,'I thought．
[11:24.66]'She understands．
[11:27.14]She wrote to Moray and she is a Queen,like me．
[11:33.02]I can come back to Scotland with her army,
[11:37.17]kill Moray, and find my baby son James．
[11:42.83]I am in England but I am free．I can try again．'
[11:50.45]I was wrong about that, too．
[11:53.49]Very wrong．