{"id":3296,"date":"2014-04-19T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-19T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=3296"},"modified":"2024-05-14T11:38:02","modified_gmt":"2024-05-14T16:38:02","slug":"q-is-the-wild-queen-by-carolyn-meyer-book-review-mary-queen-of-scots-as-a-young-royal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=3296","title":{"rendered":"Q is The Wild Queen, by Carolyn Meyer (book review) – Mary Queen of Scots as a young royal"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"book<\/a>Catholic vs. Protestant,
\nCousin vs. cousin<\/a>,
\nRoom for both in the British Isles?<\/p>\n

Step into the glittering royal court of France, the bitterly cold winter of Scotland, and the push-pull relationship between Mary Queen of Scots\u00a0and her cousin Queen Elizabeth I<\/a> in this fascinating novel filled with intrigue, plots, and danger.<\/p>\n

Which royal person’s story most fascinates you?
\n**kmm<\/p>\n

Book info<\/strong>: The Wild Queen: The Days and Nights of Mary, Queen of Scots (Young Royals series)\u00a0 \/ Carolyn Meyer. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012 (paperback, 2013).\u00a0 [author site<\/a>]\u00a0 [publisher site<\/a>]\u00a0 Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n

My book talk<\/strong>: Mary’s daring gamble for the Scottish throne could be her last royal act, but the risk is worth the reward.<\/p>\n

Sent to France as a very young girl to be raised in the royal court and become wife of Francis I, Princess Mary is merely a bargaining chip to her ambitious relatives.<\/p>\n

When widowed at age 18, Mary vows to rule over her homeland of Scotland as is her right, no matter who stands in the way.<\/p>\n

However, she is not the only royal woman in the British Isles to master statecraft and subterfuge; her cousin Elizabeth is prepared to keep Mary’s ambitions from affecting her own reign, at any cost.<\/p>\n

Another compelling tale of Young Royals in the acclaimed series by Carolyn Meyer, this Wild Queen<\/em>‘s days (and nights) are surely numbered.\u00a0 (One of 6,000 books recommended on www.abookandahug.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Catholic vs. Protestant, Cousin vs. cousin, Room for both in the British Isles? Step into the glittering royal court of France, the bitterly cold winter of Scotland, and the push-pull relationship between Mary Queen of Scots\u00a0and her cousin Queen Elizabeth I in this fascinating novel filled with intrigue, plots, and danger. Which royal person’s story […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,50],"tags":[10,90,22,7,20,5,37,16,18,120,43,39,49,15,200,21,66,35,33,190,6,8,28],"class_list":["post-3296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","category-historical","tag-a2z","tag-abandonment","tag-behavior","tag-beliefs","tag-conflict","tag-coping","tag-death","tag-determination","tag-family","tag-france","tag-growing-up","tag-love","tag-memories","tag-relationships","tag-scotland","tag-self-image","tag-series","tag-surprises","tag-survival","tag-tbr2013","tag-travel","tag-us-author","tag-villains"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3296"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14577,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3296\/revisions\/14577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}