The Captive Queen Of Scots

Author : Jean Plaidy
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 030735198X
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Captive Queen of Scots written by Jean Plaidy and published by Crown. This book was released on 2006-11-28 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Plaidy excels at blending history with romance and drama.”—The New York Times “Burn the murderess!” So begins The Captive Queen of Scots, the epic tale of the Scottish Queen Mary Stuart, cousin to Queen Elizabeth of England. After her husband, Lord Darnley, is murdered, suspicion falls on Mary and her lover, the Earl of Bothwell. A Catholic in a land of stern Protestants, Mary finds herself in the middle of a revolt, as her bloodthirsty subjects call for her arrest and execution. In disgrace, she flees her Scottish persecutors for England, where she appeals to Queen Elizabeth for mercy, but to no avail. Throughout Mary’s long years as the Queen’s prisoner, she conceives many bold plans for revenge and escaping to freedom—but the gallows of Fotheringhay Castle loom . . . Set against royal pageantry, religious strife, and bloody uprising—and filled with conspiracies, passion, heartbreak, and fascinating historical detail—The Captive Queen of Scots is an unforgettable tale of the intense rivalry between two powerful women of noble blood.

Author : Eleanor Hibbert
Publisher : Putnam Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 9780449232873
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Captive Queen of Scots written by Eleanor Hibbert and published by Putnam Publishing Group. This book was released on 1970 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Full of intrigue, conspiracies, love, and fascinating historical detail, this novel vividly recreates the life and times of Mary Stuart, better known as Mary, Queen of Scots.

Author : Alison Weir
Publisher : Doubleday Canada
ISBN 13 : 038566978X
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Captive Queen written by Alison Weir and published by Doubleday Canada. This book was released on 2010-07-13 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For historical fiction readers, a tantalizing new novel from New York Times bestselling author Alison Weir about the passionate and notorious French queen, Eleanor of Aquitaine. Renowned for her highly acclaimed and bestselling British histories, Alison Weir has in recent years made a major impact on the fiction scene with her novels about Queen Elizabeth and Lady Jane Grey. In this latest offering, she imagines the world of Eleanor of Aquitaine, the beautiful twelfth-century woman who was Queen of France until she abandoned her royal husband for the younger man who would become King of England. In a relationship based on lust and a mutual desire for great power, Henry II and Eleanor took over the English throne in 1154, thus beginning one of the most influential reigns and tumultuous royal marriages in all of history. In this novel, Weir uses her extensive knowledge to paint a most vivid portrait of this fascinating woman.

Author : DR JADE. SCOTT
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781789297171
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book CAPTIVE QUEEN written by DR JADE. SCOTT and published by . This book was released on 2024 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Danny Saunders
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781497462434
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Captive Queen written by Danny Saunders and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-04-24 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political schemes, religious partisanship and unbridled love shake the Royal Court of Scotland at the end of the Stuart dynasty. Witness to sordid murders, spy for Her Majesty among the Protestants of the infamous preacher John Knox, forced to give up her one true love, thrown out onto the streets then ruthlessly attacked by a drunkard, Charlotte Gray will do everything in her power to remain the sovereign's lady-in-waiting. As for the Queen of Scots, she faces turmoil of a completely different kind: prisoner in a castle under the command of her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I of England, Mary Stuart learns that she is the victim of a vast conspiracy and that her English counterpart has ordered her imminent execution. Despite their hardships, Mary and Charlotte will keep their dignity throughout the storm. The two women will finally find serenity, one in the arms of a man and the other in the arms of God. Interwoven with historical facts of the era, the thrilling The Captive Queen saga is worthy of the greatest royal intrigues that still fascinate us several centuries later.

Author : Jean Plaidy
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307497623
Total Pages : 533 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Royal Road to Fotheringhay written by Jean Plaidy and published by Crown. This book was released on 2010-03-31 with total page 533 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The haunting story of the beautiful—and tragic—Mary, Queen of Scots, as only legendary novelist Jean Plaidy could write it Mary Stuart became Queen of Scotland at the tender age of six days old. Her French-born mother, the Queen Regent, knew immediately that the infant queen would be a vulnerable pawn in the power struggle between Scotland’s clans and nobles. So Mary was sent away from the land of her birth and raised in the sophisticated and glittering court of France. Unusually tall and slim, a writer of music and poetry, Mary was celebrated throughout Europe for her beauty and intellect. Married in her teens to the Dauphin François, she would become not only Queen of Scotland but Queen of France as well. But Mary’s happiness was short-lived. Her husband, always sickly, died after only two years on the throne, and there was no place for Mary in the court of the new king. At the age of twenty, she returned to Scotland, a place she barely knew. Once home, the Queen of Scots discovered she was a stranger in her own country. She spoke only French and was a devout Catholic in a land of stern Presbyterians. Her nation was controlled by a quarrelsome group of lords, including her illegitimate half brother, the Earl of Moray, and by John Knox, a fire-and-brimstone Calvinist preacher, who denounced the young queen as a Papist and a whore. Mary eventually remarried, hoping to find a loving ally in the Scottish Lord Darnley. But Darnley proved violent and untrustworthy. When he died mysteriously, suspicion fell on Mary. In haste, she married Lord Bothwell, the prime suspect in her husband’s murder, a move that outraged all of Scotland. When her nobles rose against her, the disgraced Queen of Scots fled to England, hoping to be taken in by her cousin Elizabeth I. But Mary’s flight from Scotland led not to safety, but to Fotheringhay Castle.

Author : Philippa Gregory
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416549129
Total Pages : 451 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Other Queen written by Philippa Gregory and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-09-16 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a tale inspired by the story of Mary, Queen of Scots, in a work that follows the doomed monarch's long imprisonment in the household of the Earl of Shrewsbury and his spying wife, Bess.

Author : Alison Weir
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0307431479
Total Pages : 722 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mary, Queen of Scots, and the Murder of Lord Darnley written by Alison Weir and published by Random House. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Alison Weir's Mary Boleyn. Handsome, accomplished, and charming, Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, staked his claim to the English throne by marrying Mary Stuart, who herself claimed to be the Queen of England. It was not long before Mary discovered that her new husband was interested only in securing sovereign power for himself. Then, on February 10, 1567, an explosion at his lodgings left Darnley dead; the intrigue thickened after it was discovered that he had apparently been suffocated before the blast. After an exhaustive reevaluation of the source material, Alison Weir has come up with a solution to this enduring mystery. Employing her gift for vivid characterization and gripping storytelling, Weir has written one of her most engaging excursions yet into Britain’s bloodstained, power-obsessed past.

Author : J. Keith Cheetham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780950829906
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mary Queen of Scots written by J. Keith Cheetham and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mary (Queen of Scots)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life of Mary, Queen of Scots. [By James Grant.] written by Mary (Queen of Scots) and published by . This book was released on 1828 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: