Oliver Conway
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The words of Mary, Queen of Scots, written hours before she was beheaded.
After being in prison for 19 years, she was executed on orders from her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I. Now the whole of her final letter is to go on display at Perth Museum in Scotland.
Philippa Gregory is a historian and expert on the Tudors.
It talks of her personal feelings which the Tudor women and Tudor people don't generally tend to put in writing but
Her emotion just burns through this.
And we know from there's a very, very good biography of her by the historian John Guy, who speaks of her as a serious leader and a serious queen himself.
So it's an extraordinary, an extraordinary death for a woman at the time and for a monarch at the time.
Historian Philippa Gregory.
And that's all from us for now, but the Global News Podcast will be back very soon.
This edition was mixed by Gabriel O'Regan and produced by Alison Davis.
Our editors, Karen Martin.
I'm Oliver Conway.
Until next time, goodbye.
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I would have done anything to get the medicine for Khalil.
He told us it wasn't successful.
As I understood it, the video just didn't make any money.
You're listening to the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.
Hello, I'm Oliver Conway.
We're recording this at 16 hours GMT on Wednesday, the 10th of December.