Mary, Queen of Scots, and the Murder of Lord Darnley
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781299000223 (1299000223)
Publish date: January 1st 2007
Publisher: Random House, Inc.
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Biography,
History,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Cultural,
Mystery,
Crime,
True Crime,
European History,
16th Century,
Scotland
"En Ma Fingit Mon CommencementIn my end is my BeginningMary had this saying embroidered on her cloth of estate while in prison in England.Mary was 6 days old when her father died and she was crowned Queen of the Scots. At age 15 she married Francis, dauphin of France, and he ascended the throne a y...
I've always thought Mary was a naive dolt, playing at politics and assassination like she was in a Lord Byron poem. Hopefully this book will give me a better sense of whether that was true, or if she actually had a better idea or rationale for what she was doing.
I've been re-reading this over the last month.Weir does a good analysis of the whole murder of Darnley, and while she believes Mary to be innocent, she doesn't show the Scots Queen as truly a white sheep. The last 100 hunderd pages, however, are a little slow.
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