Queen's Own Fool p.3

Continuing on with the previous post....

During the Lord Darnley' reign, no one complained, however, Nicola rants on about insulting Lord Darnley to Davie. Davie however, doesn’t mind serving him, as he now has the power on the government, owning the seal indicating of the king. With much envious people around him, Nicola warns him that his life may be taken. Later on, with much displeasure, his death starts, loosening the queen’s control on the counsel.

With that, the queen sends Nicola to the King Darnley, as she fears for the king’s safety. As what she feared was true, because as Nicola travels to the king, there was an explosion, causing the death of Darnley, and everyone in Scotland now blames the queen. With constant revolts and accusing Darnley's death at the queen, they were off to have the assistance of Lord James, the queen's previous adviser.
With the situations, Queen Mary was to marry Bothwell, who was rumored to be the one who had murdered Darnley. With that, the queen was to be imprisoned, moving from a miserable castle to another, until Nicola planned her escaped. With 2 tries, they succeeded. However, with that, Queen Mary ordered Nicola to go and be somewhere happy with Joseph, Davie’s twin.

They did, living in the countryside, finding news about the Queen Mary, reuniting the troupe, hearing Nicola’s death months after he sold her to Queen Mary. In the author’s note, Queen Mary was imprisoned for being a threat to the throne and was beheaded. After Queen Elizabeth I’s death and with no successors, the throne was given to Queen Mary’s son, James Stuart.

In overall of this extremely long summary that took 3 blogs in total to cover the book, I enjoyed it, to the very end. I think it was very unfortunate of how Queen Mary was accused for Lord Darnley’s death, when really was just worry for him, and lost her love to him for a long time. With wit in her mind, Nicola shows intelligence that exceeds many women in her time, and would have been a lady in waiting if she was noble born.