James VI and the Gowrie mystery . lect Gowrie or theMaster as the object of the Queens passion, orwhether to allege that she had a polyandrous affec-tion for both at once. The letters of the age hint atno such amour till after the tragedy, when tales ofthe liaison of Anne of Denmark with the elder oryounger Euthven, or both, arose as a myth toaccount for the events. The Queen, no doubt, wasdeeply grieved in a womanly way for the sake of hertwo maidens, Beatrix and Barbara Euthven. HerMajesty, also in a womanly way, had a running feudwith Mar and the whole house of Erskine. To Mar,certainly one
James VI and the Gowrie mystery . lect Gowrie or theMaster as the object of the Queens passion, orwhether to allege that she had a polyandrous affec-tion for both at once. The letters of the age hint atno such amour till after the tragedy, when tales ofthe liaison of Anne of Denmark with the elder oryounger Euthven, or both, arose as a myth toaccount for the events. The Queen, no doubt, wasdeeply grieved in a womanly way for the sake of hertwo maidens, Beatrix and Barbara Euthven. HerMajesty, also in a womanly way, had a running feudwith Mar and the whole house of Erskine. To Mar,certainly one of the few men of honour as well as ofrank in Scotland, James had entrusted his son, PrinceHenry; the care of the heir to the Crown was a kindof hereditary charge of the Erskines. The Queenhad already, in her resentment at not having thecustody of her son, engaged in one dangerous plotagainst Mar ; she made another quarrel on this pointat the time (1603) when the. King succeeded to thecrown of England. Now Mar was present at the. u ten
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