If you click here you can read a review of “Rival Queens” by Professor Williams in The Herald. The book suggests “that story needs re-tuning”, and would be excellent summer reading for Year Twelve historians.
“Mary crossed the Solway Firth to England in the hope her cousin Elizabeth I would help restore her to the Scottish throne, but instead Mary was kept a prisoner and eventually executed. It’s a story that has produced two of the strongest images in the history of these islands: Elizabeth as regina triumphant, the woman with the heart and stomach of a king, and Mary as the tragic sovereign, duped by men and unsupported by the woman she turned to for help.”
Below Professor Williams discusses her motivations for writing the book. I have a copy if anyone wants to borrow it.
Mr Kydd.
