"My heart belongs to me." The life and fate of Mary Stuart
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Mary Stuart's life was filled with unprecedented drama and controversy. After becoming Queen of Scotland at the age of nine months and Queen of France at sixteen, she ascended to the throne, which belonged to her by birthright, at eighteen. As head of one of Europe's most turbulent countries, torn by religious conflict and power struggles, Mary led armies to victory and to defeat; she survived the murder of her second husband and married the man they called his murderer. At the age of twenty-five, she was captured by another queen, Elizabeth Tudor, who signed Mary's death warrant after nineteen years of imprisonment. Celebrated historian and biographer John Guy explores the labyrinthine conspiracies weaved by Scottish lords seeking to seize power and the efforts made by Elizabeth's ministers to exclude Mary from being the rightful heir to the English throne. He offers completely new interpretations of a well-known story that has inspired writers, poets, composers, artists and filmmakers for centuries. The book was the basis of a 2018 movie filmed in the UK starring Saoirse Ronan as Mary and Margot Robbie as Elizabeth. "I decided to write a new biography of Maria. I wanted to get to the heart of the matter: to see a woman whose choices were understandable and whose decisions were logical, rather than a collection of stereotypes or convenient and ill-fitting myths. I wanted to tell Mary Stuart's story, letting her speak for herself wherever possible, while showing why other people's accounts of the same events differ strikingly from her point of view." (John Guy)
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