A pretty interesting text if you're looking for something unabbashedly pro-Mary, anti-Elizabeth, which I haven't read that many of, but it's nice to see someone confirm my suspicions that Elizabeth was largely a monster. It's old history, not written like a modern engaging history, but still readable. Some quibbles with the obvious bias of the author and on his victorian notions of gender that he imposes on everyone (Mary is the good guy because she is a good virtuous and beautiful victorian-ideal, Elizabeth evil because she is the opposite), but otherwise I'm plased.

3.5⭐

A great read! Very "distinguished language" which I enjoyed immensely. This is a vastly depressing book - more so than "The Last Days of the Romanovs." There's just so much anguish in this woman's life. I was continuously rooting for her to find happiness; which, sadly, she never did. It does make me want to read more about her son and about Elizabeth I.

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I read this book because of the show Reign. It's an amazing show and I got really invested in the lives of all of these people in history. I wanted to know how the real life of Mary Queen of Scots played out. This is a really factual book, but I did tear up. I love Mary in Reign and because of that I felt for her. After her first husband died, she was imprisoned and lived a long, unhappy life until she was beheaded by warranty of Queen Elizabeth. Man, she had a shit life.