Quotes from John Guy

as it would soon give Mary a great deal more to think about than reasserting her claim to the throne of England.

it was impossible to believe they would stay on the same side for long.

Next came "prisoners" captured at Boulogne, who were led through the streets in chains.

The chief alliance my sovereign desires is to live in amity with Scotland.

Soon Mary herself was in the court of public opinion.

any case, Arran's reconciliation to Beaton was only the prelude to his efforts to stage a comeback.

David [Rizzio], with the consent of the king, shall have his throat cut within these ten days.

The journey was up to thirty miles each way across rough country using the most direct paths.

Mary was betrayed by her own family, who failed to give her the benefit of the doubt.

With Mary crowned queen, her mother could afford some fun and dalliance.

Sixty miles was pushing it, but feasible in good weather.

Even the Catholics deserted Mary in her hour of need.

17th, she fell dangerously ill. A few days earlier, she had complained of "spleen.

She was only twenty-eight. It was, wrote a chronicler

The night of March 9 was to be one of the longest and most terrifying of Mary's life.

Two letters would be about Darnley's murder

this was to be only the first of a kaleidoscopic sequence of murderous events in her country.

Mary found Elizabeth's letter so insulting, she refused to reply at all.

Casket Letters I

Pope Paul IV refused to declare in her favor

Mary forbade this. She preferred to leave things the way they were than get involved in anything disreputable.

Assassination One

MARY'S WEDDING was spectacular. The service took place on Sunday, April 24, 1558, at the cathedral of Notre-Dame

By acquiescing in the treaty of Edinburgh, her uncles had betrayed her.