Speaker 1: Welcome to Criminalia, a production of Shonda Land Audio in
Speaker 1: partnership with I Heart Radio. Hello, and welcome to the
Speaker 1: third season of criminal At this season, we're exploring the
Speaker 1: lives and motivations of some of the most notorious impostors
Speaker 1: throughout history. I'm Maria Tremarki and I'm Holly Fry. One
Speaker 1: of the most infamous impostors in Scandinavian history, which is
Speaker 1: an area we haven't gotten too deep in this season,
Speaker 1: is the so called false Margaret. Ten years after the
Speaker 1: real Margaret made of Norway's death, a Norwegian woman claimed
Speaker 1: Margaret's identity. We aren't actually going to start by talking
Speaker 1: about false Margaret, though, We're gonna start a little further
Speaker 1: back at what we'll call the beginning, and that is
Speaker 1: with Margaret's grandfather, Alexander, the third King of Scotland, and
Speaker 1: how his death was really the catalyst for this whole story.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna do a quick little warning here that
Speaker 1: during this episode we're going to be talking about pregnancy,
Speaker 1: loss and miscarriage. Not a lot, but it is going
Speaker 1: to come up. So please be aware and please make
Speaker 1: sure that you feel safe while you're listening to us
Speaker 1: and with that, let's get back to Alexander. Alexander ruled
Speaker 1: a King of Scott's from twelve forty nine, when he
Speaker 1: was just eight years old, until his accidental death in
Speaker 1: twelve eighty six at the age of forty five. In
Speaker 1: twelve fifty one, when he was ten and she was
Speaker 1: eleven years old, Alexander married Margaret of England, the daughter
Speaker 1: of King Henry the third of England. So one of
Speaker 1: the things actually you're going to see happened in this
Speaker 1: episode is we have a lot of Margaret's so we're
Speaker 1: going to try to keep them separate from each other
Speaker 1: and try not to confuse them. So okay. During their
Speaker 1: marriage they have three children, Alexander Prince of Scotland, David
Speaker 1: of Scotland, Prince of Scotland, and Margaret of Scotland. The Queen.
Speaker 1: Margaret of England died in twelve seventy five, well before
Speaker 1: her granddaughter was born. Margaret of Scotland became the mother
Speaker 1: of Margaret made of Norway in twelve eighty three, and
Speaker 1: by twelve eighty four Alexander had lost all three of
Speaker 1: his children too. After the deaths of his children, the
Speaker 1: king reasonably began to worry about who was going to
Speaker 1: rule after him. In twelve eighty four, Alexander asked the
Speaker 1: estates to recognize his granddaughter, Margaret made of Norway as
Speaker 1: his heir presumptive. The estates during the Middle Ages and
Speaker 1: in this particular scenario, were made up of members of
Speaker 1: the nobility and royalty. Their power came from what they
Speaker 1: called feudal privileges. Feudal privileges. To be very clear, we're
Speaker 1: not in any way, shape or form what you would
Speaker 1: consider a privilege to the peasants. Their privilege left them
Speaker 1: poor and exploited by the nobility and expected to both
Speaker 1: pay taxes and feudal dues. Note here too that more
Speaker 1: than nine of the entire European population was at this
Speaker 1: time composed of rural peasants. The clergy and the nobility,
Speaker 1: on the other hand, enjoyed that income from those feudal privileges.
Speaker 1: So while it was not a privilege to the peasants
Speaker 1: at certainly was a boon for the nobles. They also
Speaker 1: had their own privileges, were air quoting that to deal
Speaker 1: with in their case, though they were exempt from paying taxes.
Speaker 1: There were three estates and they made up the Scottish Parliament.
Speaker 1: In addition to asking the estates to recognize his granddaughter
Speaker 1: as his heir presumptive, King Alexander the third also decided
Speaker 1: to try for a male heir. He had lived as
Speaker 1: a widow for a decade after his wife, Margaret of England,
Speaker 1: had died, and he was ready to remarry. His second
Speaker 1: marriage was purely contractual, not uncommon among royal marriages at
Speaker 1: the time. It's something we've talked about many times on
Speaker 1: the show. And he got married to Yolande de Dreu,
Speaker 1: daughter of Robert, the third Count of Dreux. That was
Speaker 1: on November the one of twelve eighty five. Yolande was
Speaker 1: queen for only a very short time, from late twelve
Speaker 1: eighty five until the king's death in twelve eighty six.
Speaker 1: It was a very foggy and very stormy night when
Speaker 1: Alexander died. He was riding from Edinburgh to join his
Speaker 1: wife at king Horn, which is about eleven miles distance,
Speaker 1: but in the darkness he became separated from his party
Speaker 1: and he never made it to his destination. He was
Speaker 1: found the next morning, believed to have fallen from his
Speaker 1: horse and broken his neck. Immediately following his death, the
Speaker 1: Queen announced she was pregnant. That news man Alexander had
Speaker 1: an unborn air on the way. So if Yolande gave
Speaker 1: birth to the air apparent, no one could stand between
Speaker 1: that child and the throne. But this is where that
Speaker 1: sad matter that Maria mentioned at the top of the
Speaker 1: show comes in. Yoland's pregnancy ended. It is unclear exactly
Speaker 1: what happened. There are certainly people who have believed that
Speaker 1: this pregnancy was a hoax, but it has also been
Speaker 1: put forward that in fact the baby was simply stillborn.
Speaker 1: The devastating end of this pregnancy, again, if that pregnancy
Speaker 1: had been a real one, meant either way that Alexander's granddaughter,
Speaker 1: Margaret Made of Norway and now transition, she was not
Speaker 1: presumptive Air. She was going to be the rightful heir.
Speaker 1: And that was, as you said, something that he had
Speaker 1: secured with the Estates two years earlier. Margaret Made of
Speaker 1: Norway ascended to the throne on March nineteen, twelve eighty six,
Speaker 1: when she was just shy of three years old and
Speaker 1: living in Norway. There was no adult really ruling Scotland
Speaker 1: at this time. A group called the Guardian Council was
Speaker 1: elected by Parliament in twelve eighty six after Alexander's death,
Speaker 1: to govern the kingdom until such time as Margaret the
Speaker 1: air Presumptive was old enough to do so on her own.
Speaker 1: We're gonna take a quick break here for a word
Speaker 1: from a sponsor, and when we're back we will talk
Speaker 1: about how Margaret Made of Norway's death deeply impacted Scotland.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to Criminalia. Thirteen claimants came forward for the
Speaker 1: crown after Margaret's death, but only one burned at the stake. Okay,
Speaker 1: we're gonna do a quick family tree recap. Margaret made
Speaker 1: of Norway was born in April of twelve eighty three.
Speaker 1: She was the daughter of King Eric the Second of
Speaker 1: Norway and Margaret of Scotland, Queen of Norway. Margaret of
Speaker 1: Scotland was the daughter of King Alexander the third, which
Speaker 1: is how he is Margaret Made of Norway's grandfather, who
Speaker 1: managed this whole setup so that she would inherit the
Speaker 1: throne exactly. He is the beginning. But the family tree
Speaker 1: with the same names as a little bit confusing than
Speaker 1: you now, so we don't actually have a lot of
Speaker 1: information about Margaret's childhood in the thirteenth century, though it
Speaker 1: was pretty rare to keep records of royal children or
Speaker 1: any children really, we do know the queen died while
Speaker 1: giving birth to her daughter, and the queen was buried
Speaker 1: in christ Church and Bergen, Norway. We do also know
Speaker 1: that Margaret made of Norway was raised in Norway and
Speaker 1: lived with her father before she set sail for Scotland,
Speaker 1: which was a country she had never even been to
Speaker 1: yet she already ruled. Around September of twelve ninety, Margaret
Speaker 1: boarded her father's ship and her voyage away from Norway
Speaker 1: and to her new life in Scotland began. The Bishop
Speaker 1: of Bergen was her chaperone, and it's likely she had
Speaker 1: other attendants. She was a royal, after all, that would
Speaker 1: have been a natural situation. Her arrival was greatly anticipated
Speaker 1: at Schoon Palace. Schoon Palace is a castle with a
Speaker 1: colorful history that reaches back probably more than fifteen hundred years.
Speaker 1: It is also spectacularly beautiful. It's famous for being the
Speaker 1: historic crowning site of the Kings of Scots, and it's
Speaker 1: the home of the Stone of Destiny, which is also
Speaker 1: known as the Coronation Stone. Ancient kings of Scotland were
Speaker 1: officially recognized as monarchs there, including Macbeth the real one,
Speaker 1: not the Shakespeare character, who was crowned around ten thirty one,
Speaker 1: all the way up to Charles the Second, who was
Speaker 1: the last to be crowned at Schoon in sixteen fifty one.
Speaker 1: During Margaret's voyage, the ship actually came under siege by
Speaker 1: a heavy store ms and Margaret became very ill. Blown
Speaker 1: off course. The ship landed at St Margaret's Hope on Orkney,
Speaker 1: off the northeastern coast of Scotland on September ninety. Margaret
Speaker 1: died at age seven, before she could be crowned and
Speaker 1: before she could actually see the country that she was
Speaker 1: queen of. Her cause of death is almost always reported
Speaker 1: as the effects of seasickness, but there's also speculations she
Speaker 1: may have died from complications of food poisoning. She was
Speaker 1: returned to Norway, where her father confirmed the identity of
Speaker 1: her body before she was buried with her mother in Bergen.
Speaker 1: This little girl really had quite a big impact for
Speaker 1: having lived for really so few years. Margaret made of
Speaker 1: Norway was the last of the line of Scottish rulers
Speaker 1: descended from King Malcolm the Third, the first of a
Speaker 1: dynasty of kings who ruled Scotland for more than two centuries.
Speaker 1: Margaret's death not only ended a dynasty, it also began
Speaker 1: the fight for the Scottish crown from both inside and
Speaker 1: outside the country's borders. There were thirteen claimants, but jockeying
Speaker 1: for control of Scotland had actually started even before her
Speaker 1: untimely death. She was, after all, just three years old
Speaker 1: and was not in Scotland when she became queen. There
Speaker 1: are some histories that leave her off the list of
Speaker 1: rulers entirely because she was never formally crowned. Many people
Speaker 1: saw this as an opportunity to fillip power vacuum, though
Speaker 1: by arranging a marriage. So the candidates with the strongest
Speaker 1: claims to the crown were nobleman John Balliol, Robert the Bruce,
Speaker 1: John Hastings, and Flora's the fifth Count of Holland. In particular,
Speaker 1: Balliol and Bruce looked very promising. In twelve ninety, when
Speaker 1: Margaret was still alive and expected to take the throne,
Speaker 1: the Treaty of Burgham was drawn up. This was said
Speaker 1: to end competing claims between clam Bruce and House of
Speaker 1: Baliol as their rivalry was really heating up. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: it really just wasn't all about their rivalry. It was
Speaker 1: a treaty to contract Margaret's hand and merrit the calculating
Speaker 1: politician in King Edward the First of England supported Margaret
Speaker 1: as ruler in part because he wanted his son, an
Speaker 1: infant named Edward and the future King Edward the Second
Speaker 1: of England, to marry her, and not because he thought
Speaker 1: that they would make a great match. Like we said,
Speaker 1: that doesn't happen very much in this period of time.
Speaker 1: So with that marital arrangement, Edward hoped he'd made the
Speaker 1: right political move to make him the king who united
Speaker 1: England and Scotland. This treaty also established how the two
Speaker 1: kingdoms Scotland and England would be governed after the marriage.
Speaker 1: The Scots wanted to ensure their political and constitutional identity
Speaker 1: and they were not super duper interested in this whole
Speaker 1: unification concept, right, and he just keeps shoving it at them.
Speaker 1: So it was agreed that Edward, upon his marriage to Margaret,
Speaker 1: would become Edward the Second King of Scots, and Margaret
Speaker 1: would remain as Queen Regent of Scotland. In turn, Margaret
Speaker 1: would become Queen Consort of England and Edward would remain
Speaker 1: King Edward the second. Their heirs would inherit both kingdoms.
Speaker 1: But the Guardians reiterated the Kingdom of Scotland would not
Speaker 1: be united with the Kingdom of England. This all sounds
Speaker 1: kind of confusing, so it might help to think of
Speaker 1: it in modern business terms. I know that sounds like
Speaker 1: a weird comparison, but come with me on this journey.
Speaker 1: It is as though the head executives of two companies
Speaker 1: got married. It would be expected that they would each
Speaker 1: have some influence and input on each other's work, but
Speaker 1: that their companies would remain separate entities, although possibly friendly.
Speaker 1: That would bring up some ethics issues and businesses, but
Speaker 1: in the realm of historical royal alliances through marriages, it's
Speaker 1: all good if everyone involved is on the same page,
Speaker 1: so all in agreement. This deal was accepted and signed
Speaker 1: by everyone involved, except for those very very young people
Speaker 1: Margaret and Edward right, the two people who are actually involved.
Speaker 1: At the center of the whole thing. The Guardian Council
Speaker 1: agreed to the marriage proposal but continued to assert that
Speaker 1: Scotland would remain independent. They wrote, we quote that Scotland
Speaker 1: would persist separate and divided from England according to its
Speaker 1: rightful boundaries, free in itself and without subjugation. An independent
Speaker 1: Scotland wasn't really, though, what Edward the First was looking
Speaker 1: for as a king. He decided to just sort of
Speaker 1: ignore all of the clauses he didn't like in that treaty.
Speaker 1: We'll work this out later. It's all, let's have a wedding, Yeah, right, okay,
Speaker 1: but let's get back to this rivalry among the claimants.
Speaker 1: Fearing war between two rivals to the crown, Robert the
Speaker 1: Bruce again and John Balliol. The Guardian Council actually asked
Speaker 1: King Edward the First to intervene. Turns out he might
Speaker 1: not have been the best choice for this, at least
Speaker 1: not politically, because the King took this as his opportunity
Speaker 1: to take control of Scotland, which he had been wanting
Speaker 1: to do from the beginning. Edward did agree to help
Speaker 1: with one condition, and you know, based on what we said,
Speaker 1: this is not going to be an altruistic condition. He
Speaker 1: said he would do it if the Guardians made him
Speaker 1: Lord Paramount of Scotland, the feudal superior of the realm.
Speaker 1: That basically means he wanted to be the monarch who
Speaker 1: could consider all of England and Scotland as his property.
Speaker 1: Even if he may not have been recognized as their ruler,
Speaker 1: he still owns all the land, so first who cares
Speaker 1: at that point? Right, It's like our's a de facto
Speaker 1: power situation in that mix. So as you may imagine,
Speaker 1: the Guardians didn't like any of this, but it was
Speaker 1: really too late for them, and Edward's plan was already
Speaker 1: set in motion. Taking on the rule of Lord Paramount
Speaker 1: of Scotland. The King kicked things off with an order
Speaker 1: that every Scottish royal castle now fell under his control.
Speaker 1: And most of the moneyed families in Scotland had significant
Speaker 1: land in England as well, and agreeing with the King
Speaker 1: made it so much easier for those families to just
Speaker 1: keep their estates in both countries. The Guardians and the
Speaker 1: nobility swore legiance to Edward because of that. It was
Speaker 1: when Edward expected Scottish nobility to finance and provide military
Speaker 1: service in England's war against France that the Scots got
Speaker 1: a little irked. And decided to take action. A newly
Speaker 1: formed group of twelve Guardians sent Scottish emissaries to France
Speaker 1: to discuss just how they were going to deal with
Speaker 1: King Edward. The first an agreement was made between Scotland
Speaker 1: and France called the all The alliance, which boiled down,
Speaker 1: stated that if France was attacked, Scottish forces would come
Speaker 1: to their aid. The French agreed to do the same
Speaker 1: if the situation were reversed. The Franco Scottish Treaty, signed
Speaker 1: by John, King of Scots and King Philip the Fourth
Speaker 1: of France in twelve in opposition to Edward the First
Speaker 1: of England, was the first alliance between the countries. If
Speaker 1: you imagined that Edward, upon discovering that there was an
Speaker 1: alliance between Scotland and France, retaliated, then you would be right.
Speaker 1: He invaded Scotland into a of ninety s and he
Speaker 1: forced John, King of Scots to abdicate the throne. So
Speaker 1: you've probably noticed we haven't even mentioned an impostor yet.
Speaker 1: We are getting there, we promise, but we had to
Speaker 1: lay all this groundwork so you kind of know what's
Speaker 1: going on when she finally hits the scene Before we
Speaker 1: get to that part of the story, we're going to
Speaker 1: take a break for a word from our sponsors. Welcome
Speaker 1: back to Criminalia. Finally, let's meet our impostor false Margaret.
Speaker 1: So Margaret made of Norway's death plunge the country into
Speaker 1: years of chaos and lead directly to the First Scottish
Speaker 1: War of Independence. We mentioned earlier that thirteen people came
Speaker 1: forward to claim their right to the Scottish throne. There
Speaker 1: was a process to it which I was surprised at.
Speaker 1: Actually each person needed to provide proof. Claimants were required
Speaker 1: to produce evidence supporting their right to the crown, and
Speaker 1: then each claim was assessed by you know who, King
Speaker 1: Edward the First. And remember before the break we mentioned
Speaker 1: the Guardians were having quite a hard time choosing their
Speaker 1: next leader and had asked him to arbitrate. The time
Speaker 1: when Edward was deciding who had the strongest connection to
Speaker 1: the Scottish throne was called the Great Cause. On November seven,
Speaker 1: ninety two, Edward the First, in a court of one
Speaker 1: four auditors, twenty four of whom he had appointed himself,
Speaker 1: decided that John Baliol had the strongest claim to the
Speaker 1: throne based on his lineage John was the grandson of David,
Speaker 1: Earl of Huntington's eldest daughter, and the family line was
Speaker 1: connected to King Alexander the Third. Robert Bruce was also
Speaker 1: a descendant of David, Earl of Huntington's, but of his
Speaker 1: second daughter, and that meant that Robert was second to John.
Speaker 1: Edward also factored another thing into his choice. He wanted
Speaker 1: to pick how easily he thought it would be to
Speaker 1: manipulate the next King of Scots, and John was crowned
Speaker 1: King at Schoon thirteen days later. The beginning of his
Speaker 1: rule ended the six years of the Guardians governance of Scotland.
Speaker 1: Shortly after John's inauguration, King Edward made his move. The
Speaker 1: new king quickly accepted his role as a puppet king
Speaker 1: to Edward's rule, and under edwards oversight, Scotland was invaded
Speaker 1: by England not too long after Margaret's death, and immediately
Speaker 1: after John's rule, Robert the Bruce, who was considered one
Speaker 1: of the most famous warriors of his generation, led Scotland
Speaker 1: during the First War of Scottish Independence. It would turn
Speaker 1: out that each rival would be king. Robert was King
Speaker 1: of Scott's until his death in thirty nine but of
Speaker 1: the thirteen claimants, which is a lot, they are the
Speaker 1: only two who managed to make it to the throne right.
Speaker 1: But there was one claimant who was unlike all the others,
Speaker 1: a woman who became known as False Margaret. A lot
Speaker 1: about False Margaret has been lost to time, include what
Speaker 1: her real name was. The story, as told goes like this.
Speaker 1: In thirteen hundred, one year after the death of Margaret's father,
Speaker 1: King Eric the Second of Norway, a woman landed in
Speaker 1: the port city of Bergen on a ship from Lubec, Germany,
Speaker 1: and she claimed that she was Margaret, made of Norway.
Speaker 1: So understandably, a lot of people in Bergen were a
Speaker 1: little skeptical of her story. She had not died at sea,
Speaker 1: she explained, she had been exiled to Germany for reasons
Speaker 1: that are actually very unclear to us. She had married
Speaker 1: in Germany while she was there, and she and her
Speaker 1: husband had decided to come to Norway to claim what
Speaker 1: she believed was her rightful inheritance. However, while the people
Speaker 1: of Bergen were a little prone to lean away from
Speaker 1: this story, a surprising number of people did support the
Speaker 1: woman's story, despite too really important and key facts that
Speaker 1: one would think would mitigate they're big. Margaret's father had
Speaker 1: identified his daughter's body shortly after her death, but now
Speaker 1: that Eric was recently deceased, he couldn't confirm or deny
Speaker 1: False Margaret's identity. And two, and this is a big one, huge.
Speaker 1: These two women had a very significant age difference. The
Speaker 1: real Margaret made of Norway would have been seventeen years
Speaker 1: old and thirteen hundred had she survived. False Margaret was
Speaker 1: said to be in her forties, or at least she
Speaker 1: appeared so. King hawk In the Fifth was King of
Speaker 1: Norway at that time, and he was also Margaret made
Speaker 1: of Norway's uncle. His brother was King Eric the Second.
Speaker 1: We've had a surprising number of family relatives say they
Speaker 1: recognize impostors as the real deal, like pretty much throughout
Speaker 1: this whole season, But that is definitely not the case
Speaker 1: with Uncle Hacken. He didn't believe any part of False
Speaker 1: Margaret's story, and she was convicted of fraud from masquerading
Speaker 1: as Margaret made of Norway. So because of the distance
Speaker 1: this story has in the past, as we already said,
Speaker 1: we don't know the real name of False Margaret, and
Speaker 1: we certainly don't know what her motivations were. It's possible
Speaker 1: she and her husband were hoping to take the throne
Speaker 1: in an epic ruse. Maybe this was an act they
Speaker 1: had concocted themselves, or perhaps it was even part of
Speaker 1: a bigger plan they had hatched with collaborators. But she
Speaker 1: also might not have even known that she wasn't really
Speaker 1: in a position to be any kind of powerful leader
Speaker 1: in this because she wasn't actually in the line of
Speaker 1: succession in Norway, which makes any reason for making this
Speaker 1: claim that much more inscrutable. Regardless of what prompted False
Speaker 1: Margaret's claim, it ended rather unsuccessfully and with a very
Speaker 1: definitive final act. In thirteen o one, she and her
Speaker 1: husband were both burned at state, but some reports differ
Speaker 1: in the manner of their executions, though so all accounts.
Speaker 1: All accounts report that False Margaret was burned at the stake,
Speaker 1: but her husband may have been burned, but he may
Speaker 1: also have instead been beheaded. Not that either of those
Speaker 1: things here choice. I wouldn't like to have to pick
Speaker 1: one that would not either. Although there are so many
Speaker 1: details lost to history, we do know False Margaret and
Speaker 1: Mary Made of Norway did capture imaginations enough that false
Speaker 1: Margaret and the real Margaret have been woven into Norwegian folklore,
Speaker 1: appearing as the betrayed Princess in ballads and tales. There's
Speaker 1: no way to transition from that into our mock tail sections.
Speaker 1: I'm just totally honest. I can't do it here. That's
Speaker 1: what I'm here for. I know it's actually wrote down
Speaker 1: that I was going to make a lobbly transition over
Speaker 1: to you, because the mock tail is called the Betrayed Princess.
Speaker 1: Oh that's excellent. So here's the thing I knew about
Speaker 1: Norway already. Norway is rather famous for its impressive berry crops.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you knew that. I did not
Speaker 1: know that They've got this Aggrica ulture jam down pat
Speaker 1: and so strawberries, raspberries, etcetera, all very very successfully grown there.
Speaker 1: And so that got me thinking about a berry drink
Speaker 1: and a berry base for a drink. And then I
Speaker 1: thought about a drink that I love and was like,
Speaker 1: can I make a version of this without alcohol? That
Speaker 1: is super yummy. Have you ever had a strawberry balsamic smash? No,
Speaker 1: it has strawberry balsamic together, but not in a drink.
Speaker 1: Delicious Okay, so this is basically a non alcoholic version
Speaker 1: of that. You're gonna put right into your rocks glass.
Speaker 1: No ice in there yet, one to two slices of lime,
Speaker 1: depending on how much you like your your citrus element.
Speaker 1: Love it one strawberry, a good sized strawberry and you
Speaker 1: want it right, a couple of blueberries, and like a
Speaker 1: nice fat BlackBerry. And then you're gonna put a half
Speaker 1: teaspoon of balsamic in there. Get out your muddler or
Speaker 1: your wooden spoon, and just give it a little a
Speaker 1: little mash. Again, as I always say, with the muddler,
Speaker 1: don't pulverize. You're just trying to bring everything out. You
Speaker 1: don't want to make like a gross pulp of the situation.
Speaker 1: You want to be able to recognize that it started
Speaker 1: as fruit. So then once you've got that mashed a
Speaker 1: little bit, you're gonna add a half ounce of simple
Speaker 1: syrup or a vanilla syrup. You know, I was like
Speaker 1: a vanilla, a dash of lime juice, give it a
Speaker 1: little stir, add in a whole lot of ice, and
Speaker 1: then you're gonna slowly pour your ginger ale over that
Speaker 1: while you keep stirring it to make sure that fruit
Speaker 1: integrates with the ginger ale, it becomes this beautiful, pinkish red.
Speaker 1: I also did a version where I threw some basil
Speaker 1: leaves in the starting before I mo and that did
Speaker 1: something very beautiful that you can also if you don't
Speaker 1: want to go as sweet as ginger ale, use a
Speaker 1: club soda instead, and then uh, you can you know,
Speaker 1: garnish it with something like a rosemary or a lime
Speaker 1: or whatever you delight in. But let me tell you
Speaker 1: how yummy this is. It is so yummy. It's another
Speaker 1: one that I was like, oh no, I better make
Speaker 1: it again and make sure it's the same, which really
Speaker 1: was like I just wanted more. I think that's just
Speaker 1: called quality control, right, that's just called you know, yes,
Speaker 1: you want to give out a bad recipe, you need
Speaker 1: to be sure it's good, even if it takes six tries, right,
Speaker 1: six delicious tries. You're all identical. If you want to
Speaker 1: make a cocktail version with alcohol, there are two paths
Speaker 1: you can take, and you could consider one maybe the
Speaker 1: what I would call Margaret made of Norway, and the
Speaker 1: other I would call false Margaret. But they're both delicious,
Speaker 1: but they have very different flavor profiles. Margaret made of
Speaker 1: Norway preserves kind of the flavor of the mocktail version.
Speaker 1: You're still getting all of that berry in a little
Speaker 1: the lime that really like brings that berry flavor to
Speaker 1: like a really zingy place, but you're going to add
Speaker 1: an ounce and a half of just like a very
Speaker 1: clean vodka. You don't even taste the vodka, which makes
Speaker 1: it a slightly dangerous drink if you are a drinker.
Speaker 1: The other version, which will make it a very different
Speaker 1: thing in its forties, perhaps um, is that you can
Speaker 1: do instead an ounce and a half of a really
Speaker 1: beautiful gin. I would do one that doesn't have a
Speaker 1: heavy flavor, but you want that that herbal completely different,
Speaker 1: Like gin brings its own business to the table, right,
Speaker 1: So that's going to shift the drink around quite a
Speaker 1: bit in terms of its flavor, and you still get
Speaker 1: all of those yummy berry flavors, but their flavors shift
Speaker 1: on your tongue a little bit because you're also getting
Speaker 1: that juniper bite in there. Both very yummy. Absolutely serving
Speaker 1: this at my next get together. If I can just
Speaker 1: figure out a way to like muddle you know, eight
Speaker 1: pounds of berries it once, I'll be fine for the day, right,
Speaker 1: you need a very big picture, need picture I can.
Speaker 1: I got pictures for days. It's just it's a lot
Speaker 1: of fruit. So it's a lot of little pieces and
Speaker 1: a little more ups than some of the drinks I do.
Speaker 1: But the payoff is really quite delightful. And then at
Speaker 1: the bottom you have all of this beautiful fruit that's
Speaker 1: had you know, yummy ginger ales soaking into it, and
Speaker 1: it just becomes its own little dessert addendum to the situation,
Speaker 1: or in the alternative glass, it's had levely Gin sitting
Speaker 1: there just sort of yes, marinating it. That is the
Speaker 1: betrayed princess. And I specifically wanted to start with ingredients
Speaker 1: that are more commonly found. I mean, which not to
Speaker 1: say those things don't grow in Scotland, but Norway really
Speaker 1: like likes to tout its ability to grow some pretty
Speaker 1: beautiful fruit. So that's why I want to do that.
Speaker 1: We didn't get a lot of Norwegian in the story,
Speaker 1: and I thought that might be a nice way to
Speaker 1: honor Margaret's early childhood life. I hope in my heart
Speaker 1: that she spent her her brief life in the fields
Speaker 1: of Norway just picking beautiful ripe fruit right off the
Speaker 1: vine and eating it. So with that we will raise
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