Guy John - My Heart is My Own: The Life of Mary Queen of Scots

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First published in print form by Fourth Estate 2004
Published as an ebook by Penguin Books 2012

Copyright John Guy, 2004
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ISBN: 978-0-24-196377-7

Theatrum Scotiae, London, 1718 Courtesy of the University of St Andrews Library

The Scottish National Portrait Gallery

National Portrait Gallery, London

Muse Nationale de la Renaissance, Ecouen

National Gallery of Art, Washington / The Bridgeman Art Library

Muse Cond, Chantilly / The Bridgeman Art Library

Muse Cond, Chantilly

Muse Cond, Chantilly / The Bridgeman Art Library

National Portrait Gallery, London

Private Collection / The Bridgeman Art Library

Bibliothque Nationale, Paris

Bibliothque Nationale, Paris

, sent to Mary Tudor in January 1554 Courtesy of The National Archives, London

Bibliothque Nationale, Paris / The Bridgeman Art Library

The Scottish National Portrait Gallery / The Bridgeman Art Library

National Portrait Gallery, London

from a Scottish private collection

The Scottish National Portrait Gallery

by courtesy of the Marquess of Salisbury

The British Museum

The British Museum / The Bridgeman Art Library

from a private collection

Pinacoteca Nazionale, Siena

The Scottish National Portrait Gallery / The Bridgeman Art Library

The Scottish National Portrait Gallery The Lennox Jewel from The Royal Collection 2003, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II Marys letter to Elizabeth, 28 August 1565 Courtesy of The National Archives, London Miniature of Bothwell by an unknown artist The Scottish National Portrait Gallery

National Portrait Gallery, London

Courtesy of The National Archives, London

Courtesy of The National Archives, London

Courtesy of The National Archives, London

Courtesy of The National Archives, London

Courtesy of The National Archives, London

Courtesy of The National Archives, London

Victoria & Albert Museum, London / The Bridgeman Art Library

National Trust Photo Library

Courtesy of the Victoria & Albert Museum, London

The Royal Collection 2003, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II

National Portrait Gallery, London

Courtesy of The National Archives, London

The British Library

The Scottish National Portrait Gallery

Writing this book has been an exciting, invigorating experience, one of the most thrilling of my life, an adventure even for someone who had already worked on the historical records for a quarter of a century. I had no idea when I began that so much fresh material could be found in the archives about a woman who has been the daughter of debate for four centuries. Then, when I steadily began to uncover this material, I felt a sense of elation. I simply could not stop working on the book until I got to the bottom and the end of the story.

Im deeply grateful for all the help and support Ive received from the archivists and curators whose repositories and libraries Ive ransacked for so many weeks and months. Monique Cohen and her staff at the Dpartement des Manuscrits, Bibliothque Nationale de France, Paris, showed me how to find what I needed in a library Id never used before. In more familiar haunts, Dr Sarah Tyacke and her team at the National Archives (Public Record Office), London, and the staff of the University Library at Cambridge were as helpful and courteous as ever. Dr Andrea Clarke and her colleagues in the Department of Manuscripts at the British Library were always willing to assist me, supplying microfilms of key volumes of the Cottonian and Additional Manuscripts so that I could read them at home. I also thank the staff of the Rare Books Department for producing every copy in the collection of certain titles, including multiple copies of the same edition. Dr Richard Palmer and his staff at Lambeth Palace Library offered me the opportunity to read newly acquired documents concerning Marys trial and execution, some of which had been out of the public domain for decades. Im most grateful to the Trustees for access to this material.

In Edinburgh, my path was greatly eased by the reading room staff of the National Archives of Scotland, HM General Register House, and of the Department of Special Collections, National Library of Scotland. At St Andrews University Library, Christine Gascoigne and her colleagues in the Rare Books and Manuscripts Department repeatedly came to my aid. For access to and permission to quote from the manuscripts of the old Advocates Library and other documents held at the George IV Bridge repository of the National Library of Scotland, I wish to thank the Trustees.

For access to the Cecil Papers at Hatfield House and for permission to cite them, I am most grateful to The Marquess of Salisbury, and to Robin Harcourt Williams, Librarian and Archivist. For access to and permission to quote from the manuscripts and rare books at the Henry E. Huntington Library, San Marino, California, I gladly thank Dr Mary Robertson, Chief Curator of Manuscripts, whom by a happy coincidence I first met in Sir Geoffrey Eltons Tudor seminar in Cambridge some thirty years ago. For permission to read the manuscripts and rare books at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington DC, I acknowledge the generosity of Dr Gail Kern Paster, Director, and the Trustees.

The maps and genealogical tables were drawn and digitized by Richard Guy of Orang-Utan Productions from rough drafts I supplied. For undertaking the picture research and obtaining loans of transparencies, I thank Sheila Geraghty, whose expertise was invaluable. My colleague Stephen Alford at Cambridge read the entire manuscript in draft and I relished all of our lengthy conversations. Professor Michael Lynch, Department of Scottish History, University of Edinburgh, read and most generously commented on the uncorrected proofs. Im grateful for his suggestions and list of corrections on the Scottish side, and for corrections supplied by Rachel Guy, who also read the page proofs. I accept full responsibility for such errors as may still remain.