Matt Ford

Mary looks down at her robe.

Hidden beneath it is her final act.

A wave of calm washes over her.

She needs say no more words in protest.

Because Mary has one last card to play.

One last way to strike at the heart of her enemies and bring down her filthy, treacherous cousin Elizabeth once and for all.

From Audible Originals, I'm Matt Ford.

And this is British Scandal, the show where we bring you the murkiest stories that's ever happened on these odd little isles.

But when we look at scandals a bit closer, they turn out to be stranger, wilder, just plain weirder than we remember.

And when the dust settled, did anything really change?

Alice, this series I'm bringing you a very special sort of rivalry.

A female rivalry.

Yes.

That would be brilliant.

And that arguably is the biggest in British history.

But this, dare I say it, is arguably more important than All Saints.

We're going back a long way.

This is two royal cousins that are both queens in the same country.

So this is the great British scandal of Mary Queen of Scots and Elizabeth I. Yes, this is juicy.

I mean, in a way, it is the posh versus ginger of the 1500s.