Alexandra Tatinashvili

It's a fashion history book much more then Mary's.

Revisado: 04-03-22

I loved the performance, so it's 5/5.

As for a storyline, it's all around justifying often incompetent and in most cases openly stupid desisions of Mary Stuart. Some parts where author criticizes Elizabeth and tries to show Mary as a martyr made me cringe. In the last chapters where the story went around Mary's capitivity and her plotting against Elizabeth despite author's tries it was clear that Mary wasn't innocent at all and such were the laws at that time: she committed treason and she paid for it. I stopped listening to the book where author says that Elizabeth's rights to the throne were dubious when Mary was a rightful monarch. Seriously?

The book is too biased to be called a proper history book, but as a costume historian and specialist I do give credits for a very interesting insight to fashion, costume construction, embroidery and hidden meanings in each detail people wore back in those days. 2/5

Overall I recommend this book to people who are interested in fashion history, not in history of Mary Queen of Scots.

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