For centuries, Mary, Queen of Scots has been a figure of scholarly debate. This is not just colourful narrative history but the fruit of ground-breaking research: a rich blend that won Guy the Whitbread biography award and, last week, left him runner-up for Book of the Year. John Guy My Heart is My Own: The Life of Mary Queen of Scots Kindle Edition by John Guy (Author) Format: Kindle Edition 443 ratings See all formats and editions Leather Bound from 52.99 1 New from 52.99 Paperback 13.80 39 Used from 3.35 12 New from 10. John Guy My Heart is My Own The Life of Mary Queen of Scots Ebook Shop Now Summary Now a major film, this is a dramatic reinterpretation of the life of Mary Queen of Scots by one of the leading historians of this period. John Guy's new biography of Mary, My Heart is My Own (HarperPerennial, £8.99), stiffens its defence of the young queen of France and Scotland with sensational discoveries about the forgeries that allowed Elizabeth's ministers to blacken Mary's name and then behead her. JOHN GUY ‘My Heart is My Own’ The Life of Mary Queen of Scots PENGUIN BOOKS Contents Illustrations Genealogical tables Maps Prologue 1. Young Jane loved Mary Queen of Scots above all, and popular - if not official - memory has often shared her heroine-worship. "Oh! what must this bewitching Princess whose only friend was then the Duke of Norfolk, and whose only ones now Mr Whitaker, Mrs Lefroy, Mrs Knight & myself, who was abandoned by her son, confined by her Cousin, abused, reproached & vilified by all, what must not her most noble mind have suffered when informed that Elizabeth had given orders for her Death!" In 1791, the 15-year-old Jane Austen wrote a "History of England" that's so larky, lively and utterly spirit-lifting that it ought to be available on NHS prescription.
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