The Other Queen

From "the queen of royal fiction" ("USA TODAY") Philippa Gregory--a remarkable novel about the intriguing, romantic, and maddening Mary, Queen of Scots.
An engrossing heroine many recognize but few truly know, Mary Queen of Scots is remembered more for her death on the scaffold than for her turb [...]
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From "the queen of royal fiction" ("USA TODAY") Philippa Gregory--a remarkable novel about the intriguing, romantic, and maddening Mary, Queen of Scots.
An engrossing heroine many recognize but few truly know, Mary Queen of Scots is remembered more for her death on the scaffold than for her turbulent, romantic life. In "The Other Queen," Philippa Gregory resurrects Mary and her world by bringing to light a chapter from her life that is all but forgotten: Mary's long imprisonment as a "guest" of the Earl of Shrewsbury and his wife, Bess of Hardwick. With the earl and his wife, whose fortune and marriage are jeopardized by the extraordinary woman under their charge, Gregory has found the perfect means for understanding Mary herself, a queen who will lie, seduce, plot, and sacrifice the lives of thousands in her quest to regain her Scottish throne--and to take over Queen Elizabeth's of England.