Queens: The Virgin and the Martyr

A Kingdom Divided (1x1)

: 24, 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.