Leah Redmond Chang explores the consequences of Henry II’s death, from life at the French court to public shock… <\/p>
\u201cMary Queen of Scots<\/a>, along with her husband Francis, are now the king and queen of France. They\u2019re just teenagers, and they\u2019re entirely unprepared. Francis is quite young. He hasn\u2019t even gone through puberty yet. He\u2019s just really a boy, and he\u2019s been quite sickly. And so, to some degree, it\u2019s truly putting children on the throne of France.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd in fact, no one in France is really prepared for this because Henry was quite a healthy king, and he was still quite young. So, everyone has sort of imagined that his reign would go on for quite some time, and that Francis and Mary would have time to grow up before they really had to fill his shoes.<\/p>\n \u201cBut they don\u2019t have time to grow up. So, Mary is suddenly thrust in this position where she has to be the queen consort. And, for her, even though personally she doesn\u2019t necessarily exert a tremendous amount of power on the reign, her uncles, the Guises, adopt the roles as chief advisers. And so they bring Mary along in their wake.<\/p>\n \u201cSo, Mary and her extended family, the Guises are put in a sort of unprecedented position of power. Certainly, much more powerful than they had enjoyed before, even though they were very important advisors before.<\/p>\n \u201cBut on a personal level, for Mary, again, it must have been extremely frightening for her, as it was for Francis, to suddenly be put in this position entirely unanticipated.\u201d<\/p>\n Leah Redmond Chang was speaking to Lauren Good on the HistoryExtra<\/em> podcast<\/a>. Listen to her thoughts on the lives of Catherine de\u2019 Medici, Elisabeth de Valois and Mary, Queen of Scots<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p> <\/body><\/html>\n Leah Redmond Chang explores the consequences of Henry II’s death, from life at the French court to public shock… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"template":"","categories":[1],"acf":{"readingTimeMinutes":"2"},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Leah Redmond Chang explores the consequences of Henry II's death, from life at the French court to public shock...","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/26607"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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