![]() ![]() It is an enthralling, myth-shattering look at a complex woman and ruler and her time. Through Guy's pioneering research and superbly readable prose, we come to see Mary as a skillful diplomat, maneuvering ingeniously among a dizzying array of factions that sought to control or dethrone her. Bringing together all surviving documents and uncovering a trove of new sources for the first time, Guy dispels the popular image of Mary Stuart as a romantic leading lady?achieving her ends through feminine wiles?and establishes her as the intellectual and political equal of Elizabeth I. In Mary Queen of Scots, John Guy creates an intimate and absorbing portrait of one of history's most famous women, depicting her world and her place in the sweep of history with stunning immediacy. A Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge, he is the author of Queen of Scots: The True Life of Mary Stuart, a major international bestseller that won the Whitbread Award and the Marsh Biography Award and was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. A biography "as enthralling as a detective story," of the woman who reigned over sixteenth-century Scotland (New York Times Book Review). John Guy is an award-winning historian of Tudor England. NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE starring Saoirse Ronan and Margot Robbie. Mary, Queen of Scots (15421587), at Fotheringhay 1929 John Duncan (18661945) University of St Andrews Her return was not to be a happy one. ![]()
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