{"id":672,"date":"2019-09-10T16:40:40","date_gmt":"2019-09-10T16:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/elizabeth\/?p=672"},"modified":"2019-09-10T16:40:40","modified_gmt":"2019-09-10T16:40:40","slug":"enrichment-a-something-to-read-a-rivalry-in-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/elizabeth\/2019\/09\/10\/enrichment-a-something-to-read-a-rivalry-in-letters\/","title":{"rendered":"Enrichment &#8211; A something to read &#8211; A rivalry in letters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/e1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1889\" src=\"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/e1-1024x416.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/e1-1024x416.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/e1-300x122.jpg 300w, http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/e1-768x312.jpg 768w, http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/e1.jpg 1165w\" alt=\"e1\" width=\"640\" height=\"260\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you follow the hyperlinks (<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/thecrownchronicles.co.uk\/history\/history-posts\/rivalry-letters-elizabeth-mary-queen-scots\/\">part one<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/thecrownchronicles.co.uk\/history\/history-posts\/relationship-elizabeth-mary-queen-scots-letters-part-two\/\">part two<\/a><\/strong>) you will get to an excellent article from Ryan Hunter exploring what we can learn about the two queens, and their attitudes from their correspondence.<\/p>\n<p>As he suggests, \u201c<em>Mary, Queen of Scots and Elizabeth I\u2019s letters to each other were their only sources of communication, and they remain to this day historians\u2019 most insightful and formative sources on the quarter century-long rivalry between the two queens, as they show how Mary and Elizabeth\u2019s relationship changed over time. They reveal fascinating insights into the two cousins and rivals\u2019 personalities, and above all else, their fundamentally different approaches to their respective positions as two queens regnant living on the same isle with a claim to the same throne.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Hunter divides\u00a0 the relationship into four phases \u2013 have a read, and see if you agree. For those of you that want to push yourself, the full essay\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ryanphunter.wordpress.com\/2015\/10\/05\/a-rivalry-in-letters-mary-and-elizabeth\/\">A rivalry in Letters<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0can be found on his excellent blog.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Kydd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you follow the hyperlinks (part one\u00a0and\u00a0part two) you will get to an excellent article from Ryan Hunter exploring what we can learn about the two queens, and their attitudes from their correspondence. As he suggests, \u201cMary, Queen of Scots &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/elizabeth\/2019\/09\/10\/enrichment-a-something-to-read-a-rivalry-in-letters\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[13,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elizabeth","category-enrichment"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1G99s-aQ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/elizabeth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/elizabeth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/elizabeth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/elizabeth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/elizabeth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/elizabeth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":673,"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/elizabeth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672\/revisions\/673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/elizabeth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/elizabeth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/elizabeth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}