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The Rough Wooing: England's Brutal Courtship of Scotland
In this episode, Lucas and Luna dig into one of the strangest and most brutal chapters in Anglo-Scottish history: the Rough Wooing. After the death of James V in 1542, the infant Mary Queen of Scots became the prize in a dynastic chess game. Henry VIII, desperate to unite the crowns through marriage, launched a campaign of terror across the Scottish border—burning towns, destroying abbeys, and slaughtering civilians. We follow the harrowing raids of 1544 and 1545, the devastating Battle of Ancrum Moor, and the scorched-earth policy that earned the conflict its name. We also explore the…
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