Lady Mary McGrigor’s new book out soon is Margaret, Scotland’s Tudor Queen
The story of how 90-year-old historian Lady Mary McGrigor became a prolific writer of royal biographies and other literary works really is the stuff of fairytales.
Growing up in a mediaeval castle in Blanefield, near Glasgow, surrounded by antiques and paintings ignited a lifetime fascination in history that has taken her on many a penned journey into the eventful lives of royals and other less regal worthies – including a Scottish sheep thief who became doctor to a tsar.