Dimensions
129 x 197 x 24mm
'Dynasty' is the tale of one of the most glamourous, foolish and unlucky families ever to sit on our thrones. From the serial husbands of Mary, Queen of Scots, to the eccentric cardinal with a taste for pretty young men, award-winning writer John Macleod unfolds the complex, calamitous and entertaining history of the Stuarts.
Stuart kings were stabbed or hacked to death, deposed; killed by their own cannon or, like bold "King Billy", felled by a common molehill.
Scots, and especially the Highlanders, suffered much at the hands of Stuart ineptitude. Yet, through the farce and tumult of their years in power, a new and vigourous religion emerged; a United Kingdom; radical new thoughts and institutions; and the foundations of a modern democracy.
In this extraordinary story of intrigue and battle, from the glories of Robert the Bruce to an overindulgent queen, John Macleod unfolds their darkly funny history with detail, anecdote and wit.
