It's History-Pigstory Day! (adapted for guinea pigs) February 8, 1587 — The Day the Wheeking Stopped! 🐹 ❤️ 👑 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🥕

On this day in 1587, Mary, Queen of Scots lost the ultimate royal nose-off contest. Poor Mary!

Two piggy queens!
One crown!
Zero chill!

Mary Pig of Scotland and Elizabeth Pig of England were cousins.
Which in Tudor terms basically meant:

“Lovely to see you.”
“I may need to imprison you.”

Mary had a claim to the English hay throne.
Elizabeth already had the hay throne.

And as every guinea pig knows:

There can only be one dominant sow in the enclosure.

Mary was Catholic.
Elizabeth was Protestant.
Europe was watching.
And somewhere in the background, a suspicious pig was definitely sending coded carrot messages.

After years of plots, counter-plots, intercepted letters, and extremely tense side-eye, Elizabeth’s government accused Mary of supporting a conspiracy to replace her.

On February 8, Mary met her terrible fate with remarkable composure.

Elizabeth later claimed she hadn’t meant for it to happen quite like that. Sure .... sure ... we wheek skeptically.

Their rivalry wasn’t claws-out combat.
It was letters. Spies. Religion. Legitimacy.
And nineteen years of political cage separation.

Wheek! Wheek!