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Elizabeth & Mary - Royal Cousins, Rival Queens (Hardcover)
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Elizabeth & Mary - Royal Cousins, Rival Queens (Hardcover)
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This book seeks to refresh and retell the story of Queen Elizabeth
I and Mary, Queen of Scots through their own words. Accompanying a
major British Library exhibition, Elizabeth and Mary: Royal
Cousins, Rival Queens brings new insights to the familiar tale of
two powerful women whose relationship dominated English and
Scottish politics for thirty years. Their personal history and
struggle for dynastic pre-eminence are described and explained
against the backdrop of religious conflict, rebellion, fear of
foreign invasion, espionage and treason. Twelve insightful chapters
from leading Tudor scholars and 145 illustrated primary sources
chart the queens' relationship as it evolved from mutual curiosity,
to suspicion, to lethal enmity. Reproduced in full colour, the
sources include letters and documents written in the queens' own
hands and recording their speeches and conversations: Mary's
ten-page letter written to Elizabeth during captivity and the
sonnet she penned the night before her execution, verses composed
by Elizabeth in 1569 in response to the Northern Rebellion, and a
recently discovered letter sent by Elizabeth to Mary in 1584 in
response to her cousin's request for reconciliation. Alongside the
letters and documents that bring their story vividly to life are
many personal objects closely associated with the two queens, among
them an exceptional portrait of Elizabeth I only recently
rediscovered and one of her most treasured and personal rings, as
well as a hanging embroidered by Mary during her long imprisonment,
and the Penicuik Jewels she gave away before her execution.
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