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Rival Queens - The Betrayal of Mary, Queen of Scots (Hardcover)
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Rival Queens - The Betrayal of Mary, Queen of Scots (Hardcover)
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___________________________________ 'Scintillating, provocative...
An elegant synthesis of royal biography and political thriller.'
Daily Telegraph A Times History Book of the Year Mary and
Elizabeth: cousins, rivals, queens. They allied and fought and
plotted - but could never escape their bond... A story which
inspired the Hollywood film MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS. At the end of the
Tudor era, two queens ruled one island. But sixteenth-century
Europe was a man's world and powerful voices believed that no woman
could govern. All around Mary and Elizabeth were sycophants, spies
and detractors who wanted their dominion, their favour and their
bodies. Elizabeth and Mary shared the struggle to be both woman and
queen. But the forces rising against the two regnants, and the
conflicts of love and dynasty, drove them apart. For Mary,
Elizabeth was a fellow queen with whom she dreamed of a lasting
friendship. For Elizabeth, Mary was a threat. It was a schism that
would end in secret assassination plots, devastating betrayal and,
eventually, a terrible final act. Mary is often seen as a defeated
or tragic sovereign, but Rival Queens reveals instead how she
attempted to reinvent queenship and the monarchy - in one of the
hardest fights in royal history. __________ 'Brings us a fresh
Mary, set in a gloriously rich context, a tragic heroine -
irresistibly real and relevant... There isn't a line wasted in this
taut, dramatic and utterly beguiling biography.' Charles Spencer
author of Killers of the King: The Men Who Dared to Execute Charles
I 'The perfect combination of scholarship and storytelling,
meticulous research and emotional insight, Kate Williams brings
Mary vividly to life in all her complexities and contradictions.'
Kate Mosse, author of The Burning Chambers 'It takes a special kind
of historian to turn an old story on its head. Eye-opening,
provocative, this is the great rivalry re-imagined for the #MeToo
generation.' Lucy Worsley
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