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Fatal Majesty: Reay Tannahill
Fatal Majesty: Reay Tannahill
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Returning from the sophisticated French court to take up her throne in cold and backward Scotland, 18-year-old Mary finds herself trapped in a web of ambitions and intrigues: those of her self-righteous brother, James, who desires to rule in her place; of her brilliant Secretary of State, Lethington, dedicated to placing the Stuarts on the throne of England; and of Elizabeth I, dazzling and unscrupulous, who fears Mary as a threat to her crown and to her life.Mary is portrayed not as a woman driven by passion, but as the inspiration and victim of one of the most murderous plots in British history. The assassination of her secretary Riccio, stabbed to death at her feet, the murder of her husband Darnley, her marriage to his killer and her own end on the headsman's block may not have been random events in an era of easy violence, but intricately linked episodes in a grand, sometimes terrifying and successful design.
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Modern Literature, Paperback; no spine creases; light foxing on block and title pages otherwise no condition issues to describeShare
