Mary, Queen of Scots

[last lines]

Executioner:
Forgive me, madam.

Mary, Queen of Scots:
I forgive you with all my heart. I thank you even. I hope this death shall put an end to all my troubles. For in my end is my beginning.

[pause]

Mary, Queen of Scots:
Lord, into your hands I commend my spirit.

William Cecil:
But with Dudley comes the future crown of England. No true monarch will turn her back on that, not even Mary of Scotland.

Queen Elizabeth:
That monarch is first a woman.

William Cecil:
You would never ignore such an offer for a pretty fellow.

Queen Elizabeth:
This woman is first a monarch.

[last title card]

Title card:
Elizabeth ruled England for another sixteen years. She died as she had lived, unmarried and childless. The thrones of England and Scotland passed to the only possible claimant... a man, King James the First - only son of Mary Stuart... Queen of Scots.

[first title card]

Title card:
1558 / England and Scotland are torn apart by family and religious wars. Mary Stuart, the Catholic queen of Scotland, is married to the king of France. / When he dies she returns to Scotland to claim her throne and immediately becomes involved in a fight for power with Elizabeth, the Protestant queen of England. This is the story of the fierce struggle between... the rival queens.

[first lines]

Francis - King of France:
[screams] La Vierge!

Mary, Queen of Scots:
What is it? What is it?

Francis - King of France:
My head! My head!

Mary, Queen of Scots:
Be still, be still, put your head down.

Francis - King of France:
Please, help me.

William Cecil:
[to Mary] Madam, you cast an evil spell on all you meet... except me.