xi, 523 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : genealogical tables ; 25 cm
Note(S)
First published in Great Britain under the title Crown of Thistles by Macmillan, London, 2013.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary
Evaluates the rivalry between the fertile Stewarts and barren Tudors as critical to the sixteenth-century British Isles, tracing three generations of feuding that led to the violent competition for the throne between Elizabeth I and Mary, Queen of Scots.