“Mary’s sense of herself as queen had been with her from the dawning of her consciousness,” biographer Jane Dunn writes in Elizabeth and Mary: Cousins, Rivals, Queens.“It was never disputed or tested, as was Elizabeth’s. This awareness of her pre-eminence was her companion through li...
BIOGRAPHY; Mary Queen of plots; Biographer John Guy gives readers a a fabulously fresh and readable take on Mary Queen of Scots and the intrigue that swirled around her.(ENTERTAINMENT)Freeman, John
Anne's biographer, Eric William Ives, has argued: "At first, however, Henry had no thought of marriage. He saw Anne as someone to replace her sister, Mary (wife of one of the privy chamber staff, William Carey), who had just ceased to be the royal mistress. Certainly the physical sid...