Mary Queen of Scotland and the Isles

Mary, Queen of Scotland and the Isles is the story of a woman born to rule a nation -- and the glorious pageant of love and tragedy that followed in her wake. Mary's beauty inspired poetry -- yet her birthright engendered hideous treachery and terrible, bloody murder. This novel is Margaret George's [...]
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Mary, Queen of Scotland and the Isles is the story of a woman born to rule a nation -- and the glorious pageant of love and tragedy that followed in her wake. Mary's beauty inspired poetry -- yet her birthright engendered hideous treachery and terrible, bloody murder. This novel is Margaret George's magnificent recreation of the life of one of history's greatest legends. A woman accused of murdering her husband to marry her lover. A woman who became Queen six days after her birth in 1542 -- only to be beheaded forty years later on the orders of her cousin, Elizabeth I ...