Readers' Blog; Hollywood in need of a history lesson
In light of the recent cinema-goers’ frenzy around Josie Rourke’s Mary Queen of Scots, I am frankly quite frightened and saddened that so many people will leave a theatre over the next few weeks forever believing the events played out on screen as the historical truth.
It’s not just the costumes, the buildings, and, dare I say the ethnically diverse members of the Privy Council, which was simply not the case in reality. It’s the entire storyline. Important periods of history are left out, and perhaps the most blatant inaccuracy of this film is the fact that Mary and her sister Elizabeth never, in fact, met face to face.
