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‘In focusing on the family rivalries that led to Mary’s reign and fall, Porter has found a fresh approach to a familiar subject.’<\/i><\/p>\n
Event – The Mail on Sunday 18\/8\/2013, p.37<\/p>\n
You can read the whole of Leanda de Lisle’s review at her website:<\/p>\n
Leanda de Lisle – My Review of ‘Crown of Thistles: The Fatal Inheritance of Mary Queen of Scots’<\/a>]<\/p>\n The book is elegantly written, decently researched and, crucially, it will alert a new readership to a neglected subject.<\/i>‘<\/p>\n Read the whole review:<\/p>\n Linda Porter: Crown Of Thistles – The Fatal Inheritance Of Mary Queen Of Scots – Review by Jonathan Wright<\/a> – The Herald – 10 August 2013 <\/p>\n ‘A racy tale of Mary. Elizabeth and the dawn of a dynasty grips Melanie Reid’<\/p>\n … ‘Into all this phwoar and war steps the historian Linda Porter, cooly crafting the authentic story of how Mary, Queen of Scots and Elizabeth I came to be, rather than simply who they were. This is Porter’s unique selling point in a crowded field. She looks at the Tudors and Stewarts from the period of the queens’ great-grandfathers: two dynasties, English and Scottish, fighting like vicious neighbours over a Leylandii hedge, yet ultimately converging within the Union of the Crowns under James I & VI in 1603.<\/p>\n …Porter’s forte, though, lies in reappraising figures who have been neglected, as her biographies of Mary Tudor and Katherine Parr demonstrated.<\/p>\n This book is at its best when she alights on largely forgotten characters, in particularly Henry VII and James IV, the grandfathers of the famous queens.<\/p>\n …Her writing is bold, insightful and vivid…’<\/p>\n Saturday Review (The Times), 10 August 2013, p 12<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Reviews of ‘Crown of Thistles: The Fatal Inheritance of Mary Queen of Scots’ by Linda Porter have started appearing. ‘In focusing on the family rivalries that led to Mary’s reign and fall, Porter has found a fresh approach to a … Continue reading
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