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The Queen and Her Lover (2002x6)

Air date: Feb 15, 2002

Love, greed, murder, rape and political treachery were ingredients in the doomed 16th-century relationship between Mary, Queen of Scots and her lover, the Earl of Bothwell. Dr Saul David investigates Bothwell's plot to kill Mary's husband, Lord Darnley- was the queen herself involved? Love letters of hotly contested authenticity may hold the key to explaining this extraordinary affair.