Mary Queen of Scots

John Guy

Nov. 2018 · HarperCollins

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A biography "as enthralling as a detective story" ( New York Times Book Review ) of the woman who reigned over sixteenth-century Scotland.

Basis for the movie starring Saoirse Ronan and Margot Robbie.

Winner of the Whitbread Award

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

"Fabulously readable . . . a biography wiped free of mythologizing, shot through with sparkling new interpretations . . . It is a testament to this book's power that more than a few readers will be inclined to bow." — Atlanta Journal-Constitution

"Recent royal shenanigans look tame compared to what John Guy unearths." — Entertainment Weekly

First published in 2004 as Queen of Scots

A biography "as enthralling as a detective story" ( New York Times Book Review ) of the woman who reigned over sixteenth-century Scotland. Basis for the movie starring Saoirse Ronan and Margot Robbie. Winner of the Whitbread Award In Mary Queen of Scots, John Guy creates an intimate and absorb...

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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 Daughter's Love: Thomas More and His Dearest Meg; T homas Becket: Warrior, Priest, Rebel; and a landmark, bestselling history of Tudor England.

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...

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