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The Midwife's Secret: The Mystery of the Hidden Princess (The Queen of Scots Suite #3)

Linda Root

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Description:When then Queen of Scots Marie Stuart surrenders to Sir William Kirkcaldy of Grange at Carberry Hill (The Last Knight and the Queen of Scots) she is already noticeably pregnant. In consideration of her surrender Kirkcaldy promises that her husband Bothwell will be permitted to leave the battle field and the queen will be detained at Holyrood Palace until she comes to her senses and repudiates the man believed to have masterminded the assassination of King Henry Stuart, father of the infant Prince James. But the rebel lairds disregard the negotiated terms and send her to the Douglas stronghold at remote Loch Leven. Shortly thereafter she is reported to have miscarried twins. According to rumor, their remains were fed to hungry gulls and the queen is told by henchmen of the Douglases that unless she abdicates in favor of her son and names her treacherous brother James Stewart as Regent, she will meet a similar fate. The following spring she escapes the loch and raises an impressive army, but because of ineffective leadership and the queen's impetuous nature, the Regent's army prevails and the queen flees to England expecting support from Elizabeth Tudor that never comes. When the lairds use false to besmirch her character, the knight of Grange is outraged and defects to the Marian camp. Meanwhile her enemy Morton grows obsessed by rumors coming from Loch Leven that one of the twins survives. He orders excavations of the rocky shore and launches a search for children of the appropriate age. Like Herod before him, his search yields no fruit. He might have forgotten the entire matter but for two curious reports which fuel the legend of the Loch. The first concerns a beautiful midwife who had fallen victim of Morton’s racking. After a rescue that comes too late to save her, she dies in the knight Kirkcaldy’s arms. On the following day he leaves Edinburgh Castle and returns with a wee lass. “Her name is Daisy and she is mine," he declares. His long- suffering wife Margaret asks what makes him certain. “She is because I say she is.” His declaration of paternity seems disingenuous. Daisy’s size belies the claim. At the likely time of her conception, Kirkcaldy and the rebel lairds were engaged in chasing the queen across the Midlands. Five years later, after Kirkcaldy has become the queen's last champion, he surrenders the last Marian fortress in Scotland to an English army sent to aid the Earl of Morton, but Daisy is not among the refugees. Then, the following year, Morton learns of a child at the abbey St. Pierre les Dames in Rheims who is hidden in a hole in the chapel floor when dignitaries visit and fiercely guarded by the abbess Renee de Guise, Marie Stuart's aunt. The lass's name is Marguerite de Kircaldie but the nuns call her La Belle Ecossaise because of her remarkable beauty. Morton swears that an avid Calvinist like Kirkcaldy would not have sent his lovechild into the clutches of the ultra-Catholics of the House of Guises. Then Morton asks the question ‘What if King James VI has a Frenchified Catholic half-sister living in a nunnery in France? Would she not be the king's presumptive heir-—the she-devil Marie Stuart’s spawn conceived of the hated Earl of Bothwell? The existence of such a child would defeat Morton’s ambitious plans for Scotland. Against the rich tapestry of the Sixteenth Century, the midwife’s secret unravels in a tale told principally by actual characters from the pages of 16th century history-- the mysterious Marguerite de Kircaldie, and her guardian and mentor, the redoubtable abbess Renee de Guise. (The book was introduced in November 2012 as The Legend of La Belle Ecossaise, the name by which the reformist abbess Marguerite de Kircaldie was known.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Midwife's Secret: The Mystery of the Hidden Princess (The Queen of Scots Suite #3). To get started finding The Midwife's Secret: The Mystery of the Hidden Princess (The Queen of Scots Suite #3), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: When then Queen of Scots Marie Stuart surrenders to Sir William Kirkcaldy of Grange at Carberry Hill (The Last Knight and the Queen of Scots) she is already noticeably pregnant. In consideration of her surrender Kirkcaldy promises that her husband Bothwell will be permitted to leave the battle field and the queen will be detained at Holyrood Palace until she comes to her senses and repudiates the man believed to have masterminded the assassination of King Henry Stuart, father of the infant Prince James. But the rebel lairds disregard the negotiated terms and send her to the Douglas stronghold at remote Loch Leven. Shortly thereafter she is reported to have miscarried twins. According to rumor, their remains were fed to hungry gulls and the queen is told by henchmen of the Douglases that unless she abdicates in favor of her son and names her treacherous brother James Stewart as Regent, she will meet a similar fate. The following spring she escapes the loch and raises an impressive army, but because of ineffective leadership and the queen's impetuous nature, the Regent's army prevails and the queen flees to England expecting support from Elizabeth Tudor that never comes. When the lairds use false to besmirch her character, the knight of Grange is outraged and defects to the Marian camp. Meanwhile her enemy Morton grows obsessed by rumors coming from Loch Leven that one of the twins survives. He orders excavations of the rocky shore and launches a search for children of the appropriate age. Like Herod before him, his search yields no fruit. He might have forgotten the entire matter but for two curious reports which fuel the legend of the Loch. The first concerns a beautiful midwife who had fallen victim of Morton’s racking. After a rescue that comes too late to save her, she dies in the knight Kirkcaldy’s arms. On the following day he leaves Edinburgh Castle and returns with a wee lass. “Her name is Daisy and she is mine," he declares. His long- suffering wife Margaret asks what makes him certain. “She is because I say she is.” His declaration of paternity seems disingenuous. Daisy’s size belies the claim. At the likely time of her conception, Kirkcaldy and the rebel lairds were engaged in chasing the queen across the Midlands. Five years later, after Kirkcaldy has become the queen's last champion, he surrenders the last Marian fortress in Scotland to an English army sent to aid the Earl of Morton, but Daisy is not among the refugees. Then, the following year, Morton learns of a child at the abbey St. Pierre les Dames in Rheims who is hidden in a hole in the chapel floor when dignitaries visit and fiercely guarded by the abbess Renee de Guise, Marie Stuart's aunt. The lass's name is Marguerite de Kircaldie but the nuns call her La Belle Ecossaise because of her remarkable beauty. Morton swears that an avid Calvinist like Kirkcaldy would not have sent his lovechild into the clutches of the ultra-Catholics of the House of Guises. Then Morton asks the question ‘What if King James VI has a Frenchified Catholic half-sister living in a nunnery in France? Would she not be the king's presumptive heir-—the she-devil Marie Stuart’s spawn conceived of the hated Earl of Bothwell? The existence of such a child would defeat Morton’s ambitious plans for Scotland. Against the rich tapestry of the Sixteenth Century, the midwife’s secret unravels in a tale told principally by actual characters from the pages of 16th century history-- the mysterious Marguerite de Kircaldie, and her guardian and mentor, the redoubtable abbess Renee de Guise. (The book was introduced in November 2012 as The Legend of La Belle Ecossaise, the name by which the reformist abbess Marguerite de Kircaldie was known.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Midwife's Secret: The Mystery of the Hidden Princess (The Queen of Scots Suite #3). To get started finding The Midwife's Secret: The Mystery of the Hidden Princess (The Queen of Scots Suite #3), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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