The Cradle King: The Life of James VI and I, the First Monarch of a United Great Britain

by Alan Stewart

Book Overview

As the son of Mary Queen of Scots, born into her 'bloody nest,' James had the most precarious of childhoods. Even before his birth, his life was threatened: it was rumored that his father, Henry, had tried to make the pregnant Mary miscarraige by forcing her to witness the assasination of her supposed lover, David Riccio. By the time James was a one-year-old, Henry was murdered, possibly with the connivance of his mother, Mary was in exile in England...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312274882
• ISBN13: 9780312274887
• Release Date: December 2003
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.4" x 9.5"