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Mariner Books

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NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE starring Saoirse Ronan and Margot Robbie. A biography as enthralling as a detective story, of the woman who reigned over sixteenth-century Scotland (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. 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. 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. It is an enthralling, myth-shattering look at a complex woman and ruler and her time. “The definitive biography . . . gripping . . . a pure pleasure to read.”-Washington Post Book World Review Spirited and satisfying....Guys account has all the twists and turns of a good thriller--and plenty of horror, too. Kirkus ReviewsAs enthralling as a detective story... --Gerard Kilroy The New York Times Book ReviewRecent royal shenanigans look tame compared with what John Guy unearths in QUEEN OF SCOTS. --Claire Lui Entertainment WeeklyQueen of Scots is a triumph of biography, artistry, and historical detective work. John Guy has produced a masterpiece, full of fire and tragedy. --Amanda Foreman, author of GeorgianaRarely have first-class scholarship and first-class storytelling been so effectively combined. --John Adamson, Daily Telegraph[An] absorbing biography . . . meticulously researched . . . scholarly and intriguing. --Peter Ackroyd The Times of LondonA definitive biography. . . . Reads as thrillingly as a detective story, and is rich in detail and authoritative in its analysis. --Miranda Seymour, The Sunday Times I couldnt put this book down....Never before has [Marys story] been told with such detail, accuracy, insight and drama. --Gerard DeGroot, Scotland on Sunday - About the Author John Guy is an award-winning historian of Tudor England. 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. His other books include A Daughters Love: Thomas More and His Dearest Meg; Thomas Becket: Warrior, Priest, Rebel; and a landmark, bestselling history of Tudor England. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Queen of ScotsThe True Life of Mary StuartBy John GuyMariner BooksCopyright ©2005 John GuyAll right reserved.ISBN: 9780618619177Prologue Around eight oclock in the morning on Wednesday, February 8, 1587, whenit was light enough to see without candles, Sir Thomas Andrews, sheriff ofthe county of Northamptonshire, knocked on a door. The place wasFotheringhay Castle, about seventy-five miles from London. All that remainsthere now beneath the weeds is the raised earthen rampart of the inner baileyand a truncated mound, or motte, on the site of the keep, a few hundredyards from the village beside a sluggish stretch of the River Nene. But in the sixteenth century the place was bustling with life. Fotheringhay was a royal manor. Richard III had been born at the castle in 1452. Henry VII, the first of the Tudor kings, who had slain Richard at the battle of Bosworth, gave the estate as a dowry to his wife, Elizabeth of York, and Henry VIII granted it to his first bride, Catherine of Aragon, who extensively refurbished the castle. In 1558, Elizabeth I inherited the property when she succeeded to the throne on the death of her elder sister, Mary Tudor. Despite its royal assoc