British Historian John Guy talks to Kathryn about the lost letters of Elizabeth I which not only shed fresh light on her fraught relationship with Mary Queen of Scots, but have rewritten history. When Elizabeth came to the throne in 1558 she made England Protestant, consequently she had many Catholic enemies who wanted to see her replaced by Mary Queen of Scots.
John Guy is a Fellow in History of Clare College, Cambridge, and author of several books on the royal cousins and rival Queens, Elizabeth I and Mary, Queen of Scots. Mary was beheaded, aged 44, but it's now been revealed the execution, ordered by Elizabeth I was almost averted. John Guy has examined a previously lost document, now referred to as the John Guy letter, and it rewrites history. Currently the British Library has an exhibition Elizabeth and Mary: Royal Cousins, Rival Queens.
