All this crazy story proves is that five centuries later women are still judged by double standards. Mary's murdered husband, Lord Darnley was widely thought to have contracted syphilis from his own sexual philandering. Yet no one suggests the kings of the period were "moral loose cannons" for openly committing adultery or disposing of an unfaithful wife when they likewise proved inconvenient as Henry VIII had done. The other fallacy is that Elizabeth had Mary executed simply because she was allegedly prettier than her. What pernicious nonsense! Protestant Elizabeth would never have remained safe on her throne as long as the Catholic foreign powers could seek to usurp her and crown the Catholic Mary in her stead. But hey, Elizabeth was a woman so let's just traduce her reputation as England's greatest monarch to that of a petty jealous female, who had opponents bumped off just because they were said to be prettier.