TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gregory,Philippa
TI  - The other queen
SN  - 1416549129
PY  - 2008///
CY  - New York
PB  - Touchstone Book
KW  - Mary,
KW  - Shrewsbury, Elizabeth Hardwick Talbot,
KW  - Abandoned wives
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Ambition
KW  - Married men
KW  - Married women
KW  - Murder victims
KW  - Sixteenth century
KW  - Traitors
KW  - Scotland
KW  - History
KW  - Mary Stuart, 1542-1567
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Elizabeth, 1558-1603
KW  - Biographical fiction
KW  - gsafd
KW  - Historical fiction
N2  - This dazzling novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author Philippa Gregory presents a new and unique view of one of history's most intriguing, romantic, and maddening heroines. Biographers often neglect the captive years of Mary, Queen of Scots, who trusted Queen Elizabeth's promise of sanctuary when she fled from rebels in Scotland and then found herself imprisoned as the guest of George Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury, and his indomitable wife, Bess of Hardwick. The newly married couple welcome the doomed queen into their home, certain that serving as her hosts and jailers will bring them an advantage in the cutthroat world of the Elizabethan court. To their horror, they find that the task will bankrupt them, and as their home becomes the epicenter of intrigue and rebellion against Elizabeth, their loyalty to each other and to their sovereign comes into question. If Mary succeeds in seducing the earl into her own web of treachery and treason, or if the great spymaster William Cecil links them to the growing conspiracy to free Mary from her illegal imprisonment, they will all face the headsman
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