The True Life of Mary Stuart: Queen of Scots by Guy John

Author:Guy, John [Guy, John]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: England, Mary Stuart (Queen of Scots), *, History (European), Elizabeth I (England), Tudors, Mary Queen of Scots, 16th c, Biography
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

At the beginning of 1567, Mary had been at the height of her powers and about to reach a final political accord with Elizabeth on mutually agreed terms. Two months later, she seemed more vulnerable than ever before. This had not been the aim of the lords, but was a byproduct of their shortsighted lust for revenge. What Mary urgently needed to do was to track down the murderers and bring them to justice.

Cecil, meanwhile, was unrelenting, preparing the case against her and seeking to move in for the kill. “I fear,” wrote Mary’s ambassador in Paris, “this to be only the beginning and first act of the tragedy, and all to run from evil to worse, which I pray God of his infinite goodness to avoid.”

It was an accurate prognosis, and yet not a single piece of uncontaminated evidence has ever been found to show that Mary had foreknowledge of Darnley’s murder.* Everything depends on the assumption that she was already engaged in an adulterous affair with Bothwell. What wrecked her reputation was that, instead of throwing Bothwell to the wolves, she decided to defy the world and throw in her lot with him.

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