Mary Stuart was just five years old when she was sent to France to be raised alongside her future husband. The Wild Queen: The Days and Nights of Mary, Queen of Scots by Carolyn Meyer 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. I thought this biography was the best one of those to include in this list, mostly because this book doesn’t dwell on her as a Queen Gone Wild.īringing together all surviving documents and uncovering a trove of new sources for the first time, Guy dispels the popular image of Mary Queen of Scots as a romantic leading lady-achieving her ends through feminine wiles-and establishes her as the intellectual and political equal of Elizabeth I. John Guy has written a couple books about Mary Queen of Scots. Queen of Scots: The True Life of Mary Stuart by John Guy
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