Quotes from John Guy

urging him to assist the lords in their campaign to expel the French permanently from Scotland.

Events moved with breathtaking speed in May, when John Knox

ENGLISH POLICY toward Mary was beginning to fall apart. Elizabeth was losing her nerve.

Darnley's dagger was left in the corpse, to signify his connivance in the plot.

This, said Moray, who was himself in Fife and saw none of the events he so boldly claimed to be describing

had been "the worst thing" about this cold-blooded deed.

said that Mary "had done an extraordinary and unexampled thing on the night of the murder

As Mary left Kirk o'Field, she passed the entrance of her own bedroom.

Turning to Darnley, she demanded, "Why have you caused to do this wicked deed to me

It was a tense moment for Sir James Balfour's men

he first had to persuade Elizabeth and many of his own colleagues that an armed intervention

she should land in Aberdeen, where her loyal Catholic nobles would meet her with an army of twenty thousand men

oust a legitimate government in alliance with its rebels could be justified.

where Scotland and Mary Queen of Scots were concerned

Mary arrived at Inverness only to find that the captain of the castle

she kept religion and politics apart, putting the ideal of monarchy and of hereditary descent ahead of religion.

apparently on Huntly's orders, refused to open the gates to her.

When she was denied entry at Inverness, she lodged for the night in the town

How did so versatile a queen as Mary, one so beautiful and intelligent, so convivial and down-to-earth

but next day returned with a force.

She took the castle and hanged the captain from the walls of the battlements.

so full of life and irresistible, end up disgraced and deposed?

James Hepburn, Earl of Bothwell, Lord Borthwick and Lord Seton were unwavering in their loyalty to the regent

When she set out back to Aberdeen, he planned to seize her as she forded the River Spey.