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Mary Queen of Scots

This biography draws on a wide range of documentary sources to provide a detailed life of the Scottish queen from her coronation at just nine months old to her execution in 1587. It explains why she agreed to marry Bothwell, the murderer of her husband Lord Darnley, and how desperation at her imprisonment by Elizabeth I led to her fatal entrapment by Elizabeth’s spymaster Sir Francis Walsingham. 
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  • Publisher: 4th Estate
  • Year: 2018
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 538pp
  • Illustrated: No
  • Dimensions: 197x128mm
  • ISBN: 9780008304904
  • Condition: New
  • Weight: 0.4kg
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Product code:
516417
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Now a major film, this is a dramatic reinterpretation of the life of Mary Queen of Scots by one of the leading historians of this period.



Who was the real Mary Queen of Scots? The most enigmatic ruler of England lived a life of incredible drama and turmoil: crowned Queen of Scotland at nine months old, and Queen of France at sixteen years, she grew up in the crosshairs of Europe's political battles to become Queen Elizabeth's arch rival.


This book tells the story of the fraught and dangerous relationship between these two women of incredible charisma and power - a relationship that began with both seeking a political settlement, but which led them down a path of danger, from which only one could emerge victorious.


Previously published as 'My Heart is My Own'.
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  1. Mary Queen of Scots
    Mary Queen of Scots
    John Guy
    RRP £8.99
    now Publ £3.99
    sale Now £2.99
    Condition: New - Very Good