Queens

- Season 1

(2017)

In August 1561, a 19-year old woman steps onto land from the deck of a splendid galleon. Mary Stuart, the new Queen of Scotland and a Catholic, enters a kingdom divided by squabbles between its nobles and religious strife, including a rising Protestant movement. Queen Elizabeth I, the unmarried head of the Anglican Church, implores her to renounce her claim to the British throne.

Queen Mary has now begun to look for a husband and negotiations are opened for a match with Don Carlos, Son of King Philip II of Spain. Queen Elizabeth makes it clear that such a marriage would be a hostile act. Mary comes to focus her attention on her cousin, Henry Stuart, or Lord Darnley. Because he too is Catholic, tensions mount with Scottish Protestants.

Darnley viola a María y con el traidor Maitland asesinan a Rizzio. Nace el hijo de María, Jacobo. María se enamora de Bothwell. Felipe II hace frente a la revuelta protestante en los Países Bajos y al problema sucesorio.

Bothwell asesina a Lord Darnley. María se casa con este. Isabel siempre antepone la razón de estado a sus intereses personales. Siempre está a su lado su fiel y leal consejero Lord Cecil.

King Philip II expands his war on Protestantism. A soothsayer tells Elizabeth to expect violence and bloodshed in Scotland. Meanwhile, a band of intruders murders Lord Darnley. Mary's lover, James Hepburn, Earl of Bothwell, is tried and acquitted. But as the two marry, Mary's brother arrives in Scotland with an invading army financed by Elizabeth.

The daggers are out for Mary. Her army has disserted her. The invaders present her with a proposal crafted by Elizabeth: dissolve her union with Bothwell. While he flees into exile, Mary tries to gain time. But the negotiations do not go the way she expects. As Elizabeth finds herself under pressure from Spain, Mary and her supporters make a daring move.