| Don Carlos and Mary | |
|---|---|
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| Real Names: | Don Carlos of Spain |
| Status: | Over, ended engagement |
| Relationship: | |
| Length of Relationship: |
2 Weeks |
| Affiliates: | |
| First Appearance: | The Hound and the Hare |
| GALLERY | |
History[]
Early History[]
Even before they met, Mary Stuart was already politically interested in Don Carlos with the blessing of her dying husband King Francis who wanted his beloved wife to be protected from the English. [1]
Season 3[]
The Hound and the Hare
Mary has been courting Don Carlos for a few days. On a stroll, he asks her to participate in a courting game: The Hound and the Hare. Before marrying Francis, Mary had been occasionally hunted by other suitors and because of that she declines. After Don Carlos receives a threatening letter, he informs Mary that he must leave immediately. In order to stop him from leaving, she orders her servants to hide Don Carlos' luggage in the wine cellar. Her plan works and she gets him to stay. She even convinces him to play the hound and hare game in her version of the game: the men are the hares and the woman chase after them. They are in the woods and are joined by Queen Catherine, Lola, Lord Narcisse and other lords and ladies. During the hunt, Mary spots Don Carlos but she injures her ankle while trying to cross the river.
The following day, Mary sneaks into the cellar to go through Don Carlos' luggage. However, he catches her in the act. He soon decides to show her his sex apparatus. He loves pain and has been looking for a potential wife to give it to him. Mary refuses, clearly uncomfortable with the idea.
However, she gives in later that night and accepts to provide him with that pain. Mary is still uncomfortable with it, so she has Catherine to help her out. Mary straps Don Carlos to the machine and blindfolds him. Catherine sneaks in and begins whipping him while Mary tries talking dirty to him. Don Carlos quickly learns that Mary is not alone and takes his blindfold off. As he lashes out at the queens, the apparatus falls over and appears to have killed him.
Our Undoing
After finding Don Carlos is still alive, Mary and Catherine begin figuring out a plan to cover up their involvement.
At last, Don Carlos finally wakes up and is revealed to have become impaired, also not remembering anything that happened before his accident. Mary uses his condition as an advantage to save her country and chooses marry him.
Wedlock
Using her engagement to Don Carlos, Mary sends grain to Scotland while Narcisse funds for the French troops there. She later ends up an argument with Gideon who is against her marriage as she is using it for political reasons. Gideon tries to sabotage the wedding by announcing that Queen Elizabeth is reconsidering a marriage to Don Carlos. However, the Duke of Alba refuses the offer and continues on with the engagement between Mary and Don Carlos. Mary becomes suspicious of Don Carlos after granting him the Crown Matrimonial which allows him to continue to be King of Scotland if she were to die childless. The day of her wedding, Mary uses her trick up her sleeve against Don Carlos. On the document the Crown Matrimonial is missing and he lashes out in anger revealing his healed condition to everyone. Catherine then banishes Don Carlos from France. Near the end of the episode, Mary learns that her cousin is holding Agatha, Gideon's daughter, hostage.
Notes[]
- Catherine's spies informed Mary Stuart that Don Carlos was looking for a wife. [1]
- Don Carlos was looking for a Queen to make his wife. He has already entertained, Queen Elizabeth, [2] Archduchess Anna of Austria, [3] and Queen Mary. [3]
- Queen Mary was previously engaged to Lord Tomás, [4] married King Francis [5] and very briefly engaged to his brother, The Dauphin of France, Prince Charles. [6]
- Don Carlos and Mary meet, and both expected an engagement. [6]
- They were formally engaged after Don Carlos' head injury. [7]
- Don Carlos and Mary Stuart's engagement was officially called off, 2 hours before their wedding. [8]
Historical Notes[]
- Carlos, Prince of Asturias and was the first son of King Philip and his first wife, Maria Manuela. He died at 23 years old, not long after a severe head injury that possibly caused him major head traumas
- Mary, Queen of Scots was briefly engaged to Prince Edward of England when she was 6 months old, and briefly considered for King Philip of Spain's first son, Don Carlos who was 4 years her junior.
Appearances[]
| Season Three | ||||||||||
| Three Queens, Two Tigers | Betrothed | Extreme Measures | The Price | In a Clearing | Fight or Flight | The Hound and the Hare | Our Undoing | Wedlock | ||
| Bruises That Lie | Succession | No Way Out | Strange Bedfellows | To The Death | Safe Passage | Clans | Intruders | Spiders in a Jar | ||
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