My Heart Is My Own
The Life of Mary Queen of Scots
Guy re-examined the physical Casket Letters rather than the transcripts, and argues Mary was framed.
Guy went back to the physical Casket Letters rather than the transcripts historians had relied on, and argues from the documents themselves that the evidence against Mary was doctored. The result won the Whitbread Biography Award and reopened a case that had been considered settled.
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Helen Castor
Yes, and the Casket Letters are the documents that supposedly prove her guilt. But what John Guy did was to go back and unpick them and not be satisfied with transcripts. Instead he looked at the physical documents in order to construct a new argument that suggested that Mary had been framed. It was the forensic skill with which he did that which was so good.
Interview · August 2011
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