Matt Ford

Dread starts to settle in her stomach.

She knows Scotland has changed in her absence.

Last year, greedy Protestants, spurred on by the English, stripped her country of its rightful Catholic order.

But grief has a way of narrowing the world.

She's been so consumed with the loss of her husband.

Since Francis died, she's given little thought to what this revolution has done to her homeland.

But I had hoped my people might welcome their queen, even a Catholic one.

OK, so when she was 15, she married Francis II of France and she lived in luxury as the Queen Consul of France.

So while she's over there, married in her teens, Scotland has a full-blown revolution.

So the Protestants, encouraged by the English...

The evil English.

Changed the religion of the country without asking her.

They tore down the churches and they took the land.

Mary's mother had died, so no one was in charge.

Back in France, Mary's husband, Francis II, he dies.

They think of an ear infection.

Always get it checked.

She then returns to Scotland, where she's now a Catholic queen in a Protestant country that didn't really want her.

And it's easy now to go, oh, Catholics and Protestants, they're basically all Christian.

I mean, it's still... Parts of Ireland and parts of Scotland are still riven by the sectarian issue.