Mary: The Headless Of State

(I am going to cover for a lecturer who will be away. The two of us are going through some of the materials covered in the course, which deals with British history.)

Lecturer: “The first time I taught this course I told the students that one reason for the Armada invasion was that the Spanish wanted to put Mary Stuart on the throne. Which would have been quite a sight because she had had her head chopped off the year before…”