The Life of Mary, Queen of Scots - Roderick Graham

Mary, Queen of Scots, lived during one of the most fascinating periods in history. Graham s epic work paints a unique picture of this controversial woman, showing her to be neither a Catholic martyr nor murdering adulteress but an innocent young woman caught up in the ruthless sea of sixteenth-century politics, someone who lacked the shrewdness and empowerment of her contemporaries: Catherine de Medici, Diane de Poitiers and Elizabeth Tudor. Instead, she relied on her beauty and charm and tragically allowed herself to be a victim of circumstance When she did finally attempt to control her future, she set in motion the events that would lead her to the executioner s block, sentenced to die by none other than her cousin Queen Elizabeth. "