NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE starring Saoirse Ronan and Margot Robbie "As enthralling as a detective story." -- New York Times Book Review 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 also the author of A Daughter\'s Love: Thomas More and His Dearest Meg
Thomas Becket: Warrior, Priest, Rebel; and a landmark, bestselling history of Tudor England.. a pure pleasure to read." -- Washington Post Book World First published in 2004 as Queen of Scots About the Author: John Guy is an award-winning historian of Tudor England. . . gripping . . . "The definitive biography .
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.
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE starring Saoirse Ronan and Margot Robbie "As enthralling as a detective story." -- New York Times Book Review 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
