The Last Days of Mary Stuart

The Last Days of Mary Stuart PDF Author: Mary (Queen of Scots)
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Languages : en
Pages : 278

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The Last Days of Mary Stuart

The Last Days of Mary Stuart PDF Author: Mary (Queen of Scots)
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Languages : en
Pages : 278

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Essex - Tudor Rebel

Essex - Tudor Rebel PDF Author: Tony Riches
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Languages : en
Pages : 364

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What makes the queen's young favourite turn against her? Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, is one of the most intriguing men of the Elizabethan period. Tall and handsome, he soon becomes a 'favourite' at court, so close to the queen many wonder if they are lovers. The truth is far more complex, as each has what the other yearns for. Robert Devereux longs for recognition, wealth and influence. His flamboyant naïveté amuses the ageing Queen Elizabeth, like the son she never had, and his vitality makes her feel young. Continuing the story of the Tudors, begun in Tony Riches' best-selling Tudor trilogy, this epic tale of loyalty, love and adventure follows Robert from his youth to his fateful rebellion.

The Challenge to the Crown

The Challenge to the Crown PDF Author: Robert Stedall
Publisher: Book Guild Publishing
ISBN: 1846246466
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 500

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Mary Queen of Scots: Catholic martyr or manipulative femme fatale On 10 February 1567, conspirators bent on killing Henry, Lord Darnley, King-Consort of Mary Queen of Scots successfully razed his Edinburgh residence at Kirk o' Field in a huge explosion. Soon afterwards, Darnley's partially-clothed body was discovered in a nearby orchard, strangled to death by an unknown assailant. Rumours of Mary's involvement in his murder quickly surfaced. Placards across Edinburgh implied that she had provoked the Earl of Bothwell into killing her husband in a crime of passion. This became more plausible when she tried to avoid having to prosecute him for the murder, and subsequently married him, encouraged by her most senior Protestant nobles. While Mary's motives for the marriage might be explained by her need for his protection, those of the Nobility who had encourage it are confusing. Why would they want a union, which would inevitably place Bothwell, a man they hated, as head of government? Was their motif to associate her in the murder plot? Mary's involvement in Darnley's murder has remained one of the great historical mysteries. Genealogist and author Robert Stedall has spent ten years researching the inter-marriages within Scottish peerage to provide an explanation for their motives in removing Mary from the throne. In this first volume, of his two volume history of Mary and James, he explains in vivid detail the switching allegiances of the nobility, and can reveal for the first time, the gripping true story of Mary's downfall and imprisonment.

Arbella Stuart

Arbella Stuart PDF Author: Jill Armitage
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445650207
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 355

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The woman expected to succeed the Virgin Queen

Elizabeth I

Elizabeth I PDF Author: Elizabeth I (Queen of England)
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520241060
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 152

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Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603) ruled England for 45 turbulent years, and her reign has come to be seen as a golden age. She exercised supreme authority in a man's world, while remaining intensely feminine. She was Gloriana, the Virgin Queen, but is also held up as a role model for company executives in the twenty-first century. She is a near-legendary figure from a remote past who remains fascinatingly modern. This handsome volume has been published to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Elizabeth I's death in 1603. It illustrates in color and, where possible, in actual size, sixty manuscripts--either by Elizabeth or to her. Each one is accompanied by a running commentary, explaining the document and placing it in its historical context, and selected transcriptions or, where necessary, translations from the originals. Elizabeth was a girl of extraordinary precocity and a brilliant linguist. Her early letters, written in a beautiful italic, are to her forbidding father, Henry VIII, and to her brother and sister, Edward VI and "Bloody" Mary. The very first letter dates from when she was a child of eleven. The last, written nearly 60 years later, is a barely-legible scrawl addressed to her successor, the future James I. The letters from her in-tray are no less extraordinary. Tsar Ivan the Terrible rounds on her in a blind fury after she refuses to marry him. The Earl of Essex, young enough to be her son, pours out declarations of love: a few pages further on is to be found her signed warrant for his execution. There are letters from ministers and galley slaves, spies and traitors, coded letters, warrants for torture, speeches to parliament, and the original--only recently identified--of the most famous of all her utterances: "I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king."

The Last Days of Mary Stuart. A Novel. [By Emily Finch.]

The Last Days of Mary Stuart. A Novel. [By Emily Finch.] PDF Author: Mary (Queen of Scots)
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Languages : en
Pages : 330

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The Tragic Histories of Mary Queen of Scots, 1560-1690

The Tragic Histories of Mary Queen of Scots, 1560-1690 PDF Author: John D. Staines
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 9780754666110
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 294

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Charting developments in public rhetoric and political writing from the Elizabethan period through the Restoration, John Staines here explores the political consequences of the emotions generated by the image of Mary Queen of Scots, tragic woman and queen. This study identifies two basic literary traditions of her tragedy: one conservative, sentimental, and royalist, the other radical, skeptical, and republican.

Elizabeth's Spymaster

Elizabeth's Spymaster PDF Author: Robert Hutchinson
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0312368224
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 413

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Mary Stuart

Mary Stuart PDF Author: Agnes Strickland
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Category : Princes
Languages : en
Pages : 532

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Life of Mary Queen of Scots

Life of Mary Queen of Scots PDF Author: Agnes Strickland
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Category : Queens
Languages : en
Pages : 534

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