Rival Queens

Williams, Kate

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Elizabeth and Mary: cousins, rivals, queens. They loved each other, they hated each other – they could never escape one another. Kate Williams’s thrilling history tells the story of Elizabeth I of England and Mary, Queen of Scots. At the end of the Tudor era, here were two women on two thrones. But this was a man’s world and many believed that no woman should govern. All around Elizabeth and Mary were sycophants, spies and detractors who wanted their power, their favour and their bodies. And so they became one another’s closest confidants in the struggle to be both women and queens. Alliances were few, but for many years theirs survived – until the forces rising against them, and the struggles of love and dynasty, drove them apart. It was a schism that would end in recrimination, secret assassination plots and, eventually, the signing of Mary’s death warrant in Elizabeth’s hand.

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Publish Date: 30/05/2019

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‘Scintillating, provocative… An elegant synthesis of royal biography and political thriller.’ Daily Telegraph

A Times History Book of the Year: a story which inspired the Hollywood film MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS.

Mary, Queen of Scots & Elizabeth I of England. Two powerful monarchs on a single island.
Threatened by voices who believed no woman could govern.
Surrounded by sycophants, spies and detractors.
Accosted for their dominion, their favour and their bodies.
Besieged by secret plots, devastating betrayals and a terrible final act.
Only one queen could survive to rule all.
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‘Brings us a fresh Mary, set in a gloriously rich context, a tragic heroine – irresistibly real and relevant… There isn’t a line wasted in this taut, dramatic and utterly beguiling biography.’
Charles Spencer author of Killers of the King: The Men Who Dared to Execute Charles I

‘The perfect combination of scholarship and storytelling, meticulous research and emotional insight, Kate Williams brings Mary vividly to life in all her complexities and contradictions.’ Kate Mosse, author of The Burning Chambers

‘It takes a special kind of historian to turn an old story on its head. Eye-opening, provocative, this is the great rivalry re-imagined for the #MeToo generation.’ Lucy Worsley

Additional information

Weight 311 g
Dimensions 198 × 129 × 26 mm
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Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

viii, 408 , 16 unnumbered of plates

Language

English

Edition
Dewey

942.0550922 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K