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The Betrayal of Mary, Queen of Scots: Elizabeth I and Her Greatest Rival
From the New York Times bestselling author of Becoming Queen Victoria, a new history of Mary Queen of Scots and Elizabeth I that reveals how the most important relationship of their life—their friendship—changed them forever.

Elizabeth and Mary were cousins and queens, but eventually it became impossible for them to live together in the same world.This is the story of two women struggling for supremacy in a man’s world, when no one thought a woman could govern. They both had to negotiate with men—those who wanted their power and those who wanted their bodies—who were determined to best them. In their worlds, female friendship and alliances were unheard of, but for many years theirs was the only friendship that endured. They were as fascinated by each other as lovers; until they became enemies. Enemies so angry and broken that one of them had to die, and so Elizabeth ordered the execution of Mary.But first they were each other’s lone female friends in a violent man’s world. Their relationship was one of love, affection, jealousy, antipathy – and finally death. This book tells the story of Mary and Elizabeth as never before, focusing on their emotions and probing deeply into their intimate lives as women and queens.They loved each other, they hated each other—and in the end they could never escape each other.
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The Betrayal of Mary, Queen of Scots: Elizabeth I and Her Greatest Rival

The Betrayal of Mary, Queen of Scots: Elizabeth I and Her Greatest Rival

by Kate Williams
The Betrayal of Mary, Queen of Scots: Elizabeth I and Her Greatest Rival

The Betrayal of Mary, Queen of Scots: Elizabeth I and Her Greatest Rival

by Kate Williams

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From the New York Times bestselling author of Becoming Queen Victoria, a new history of Mary Queen of Scots and Elizabeth I that reveals how the most important relationship of their life—their friendship—changed them forever.

Elizabeth and Mary were cousins and queens, but eventually it became impossible for them to live together in the same world.This is the story of two women struggling for supremacy in a man’s world, when no one thought a woman could govern. They both had to negotiate with men—those who wanted their power and those who wanted their bodies—who were determined to best them. In their worlds, female friendship and alliances were unheard of, but for many years theirs was the only friendship that endured. They were as fascinated by each other as lovers; until they became enemies. Enemies so angry and broken that one of them had to die, and so Elizabeth ordered the execution of Mary.But first they were each other’s lone female friends in a violent man’s world. Their relationship was one of love, affection, jealousy, antipathy – and finally death. This book tells the story of Mary and Elizabeth as never before, focusing on their emotions and probing deeply into their intimate lives as women and queens.They loved each other, they hated each other—and in the end they could never escape each other.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781643130002
Publisher: Pegasus Books
Publication date: 11/13/2018
Pages: 432
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.70(d)

About the Author

Kate Williams is the author of the New York Times bestseller Becoming Queen Victoria, which was the inspiration for the Academy Award-winning film The Young Victoria, starring Emily Blunt and Rupert Friend as Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. She is also the author of Ambition & Desire, a biography of Josephine Bonaparte. Kate works as CNN's British royalty and historical expert. She lives in England.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations vii

Prologue 3

Introduction 5

1 'Conducted by the Winds' 7

2 'It Will End with a Lass' 14

3 'Rough Wooing' 26

4 'A Princess on This Earth' 32

5 'Marvellous in Our Eyes' 44

6 'A Thousand Deaths' 53

7 'Excluded and Banned' 61

8 'A Calm Mind' 69

9 'Not of Ladies' Capacity' 79

10 Queen of All Realms 87

11 'A Rash and Hazardous Young Man' 96

12 'I Will Never See You Again' 105

13 'A Stone of Marble' 119

14 'Malicious Talk' 128

15 'To Use Me as Her Sister or Daughter' 137

16 'The Scots Proclaim Much But Their Threats Are Not Carried Out' 148

17 'I Would Have Taken My Husband's Dagger and Stabbed Him with it!' 154

18 Looking Through Their Fingers 162

19 'So Horrible and Strange' 175

20 The Mermaid 186

21 'Whether She Would or Would Not' 193

22 'So Wearied and Broken' 200

23 'They Have Robbed Me of Everything I Have in This World' 208

24 'The Conspiracy for Her Husband's Murder' 217

25 'Forced Out of My Kingdom' 226

26 'Pain and Peril Seem Pleasant to Her' 233

27 'With Her Own Hand' 244

28 'You Have Promised to Be Mine' 251

29 'Unnatural Sister' 263

30 'No One Can Cure This Malady as Well as the Queen of England' 274

31 'That Devilish Woman' 286

32 'Green Ribbons' 297

33 'I Am a True Queen' 304

34 'Shipwreck of My Soul' 311

35 'We Princes Are Set upon Stages' 318

36 'I Am Ready' 327

37 'An Abundance of Tears' 335

Notes 345

Bibliography 359

Index 393

Acknowledgements 405

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