8.2/1019 votesLoading...#1 - A Queen Betrayed
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 12/17/2018
Neil Oliver reveals how the clans plotted against Mary Stewart, Queen of Scots, ultimately leading to the beheading of the most charismatic queen in Scottish history. The tale turns on a brother's plot to overthrow his sister in a ruthless bid for power. James Stewart, Earl of Moray, uses clan power to first control and then rid Scotland of his sister Mary. As she battles conspiracies, plots and counterplots, Mary is trapped in the cruel and tumultuous world of clan blood feuds. After they murder her husband Lord Darnley and Mary flees into the arms of the Earl of Bothwell, the most ruthless of Scotland's clan chiefs, civil war breaks out. Mary escapes to England, never to return again.
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#2 - The Bruce Supremacy
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 12/3/2018
Neil Oliver travels back in time to reveal the real life Game of Thrones - the story of Scotland's ancient clans. A blood-soaked saga of battles and feuds, loyalty and betrayal, love and death set against the country's wild mountains and glens. In this first episode, Neil follows the clans as they rallied behind Robert the Bruce in his against-all-odds bid to win Scotland's crown. After their crucial role in crushing the English at Bannockburn in 1314, Bruce rewarded the loyal chiefs with land and titles. They rise to shape the fate of kingdom in the centuries to come.
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#3 - Brothers at War
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 12/10/2018
Neil Oliver follows the rise of Clan Stewart to become Scotland’s Royal dynasty. It’s the blood soaked tale of a bitter family feud. In a vicious contest, using clan power to plot, manoeuvre and murder their way to power, the story culminates with the dramatic assassination of King James I below a tennis court in Perth, 1437. Neil traces this family feud through clan combat, royal romances and spectacular Renaissance courts to the brutal torture and execution of the last rival Stewart, Walter Atholl, when the king’s widowed Queen Joan wreaks a terrible revenge for his treachery.
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Series following an epic struggle for power in medieval Scotland, told from the point of view of the feuding clans.
Genres:DocumentaryWar & Politics
Network:BBC One Scotland
Best Episodes Summary
"A Queen Betrayed" is the best rated episode of "Rise of the Clans". It scored 8.2/10 based on 19 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 12/17/2018. This episode scored 0.6 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Bruce Supremacy".