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The opening dramatic passage about Mary Queen of Scots' execution was read from this book. Tom identifies it as 'the first chapter in Mattingly's account of the Spanish Armada' by 'the American historian, Garrett Mattingly, in 1950.'

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Described as 'a brilliant, groundbreaking book on Mary, Queen of Scots' by the Scottish historian Jenny Wormald, who 'condemned her as a monarch of little wit and no judgment, a woman who absolutely brought about her own downfall.'

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Tom holds up and describes 'this titanic definitive biography of Mary by John Guy, which came out about 20 years ago' - noting it has been retitled for the 2018 film and features Saoirse Ronan and Margot Robbie on the cover with the subtitle 'Two Queens, One Future.'