Sunday, October 31, 2004
Antickes and Frets
NYTimes.com > A Work of Halloween Fiction: Antickes and Frets"In the spring of 1568, Mary, Queen of Scots, fearing the wrath of her subjects, crossed the border into England. Once arrived, she wrote a letter to her cousin, Queen Elizabeth, explaining her predicament and begging for her protection. Elizabeth wrote back, expressing her shock that subjects should behave so wickedly toward their lawful and divinely appointed Prince. But privately she considered how Mary had often laid claim to the English throne. She also thought how Mary had had a most baleful influence on her Scottish subjects, how she had been an instigator of civil wars and the cause of several murders."
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