Queen of Scots: The True Life of Mary Stuart

An intimate, myth-shattering new biography of Mary Queen of Scots by a premier historian that draws on a trove of newly discovered sources.

Queen of Scots, the first full-scale biography of Mary in more than thirty years, offers a singularly novel, nuanced, and dramatic portrait of one of history’s greatest women.

John Guy draws on sources - many previously unstudied - as varied as the secret communiques of English spies and Mary's own letters.

Dispelled is the ingra…