588. Mary, Queen of Scots: The Mystery of the Exploding Mansion (Part 5)

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Described as a 'wonderful book' about Mary, Queen of Scots, in which Fraser describes the murder of Lord Darnley as 'the most debatable, as well as surely the most worked over murder in history.' Fraser's view is that Mary was a tender-hearted person who would never have been involved in the murder.

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Discussed as presenting the opposite view to Antonia Fraser's book, with Wormald despising Mary Queen of Scots and arguing that if Mary didn't murder Darnley, she was 'almost the only member of Edinburgh's political society who knew nothing about it.'

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Described as providing what the hosts consider the most definitive solution to Darnley's murder. Published in 2004, Guy went back to original documents that had been miscatalogued by Victorian archivists, and his work was the inspiration for the Saoirse Ronan film. The hosts draw heavily on Guy's work for their account of the murder.