‘Expertly researched, zestfully written, acutely intelligent in its historical judgements, this masterly biography finally does justice to a forgotten Tudor princess’ John Guy
Morgan Ring was born and raised in Toronto. She read History at Cambridge, where she is now completing her PhD. She held the Francis J. Weber Fellowship at the Huntington Library and holds the Gonville Studentship at Gonville and Caius College. So High a Blood is her first book.
Expertly researched, zestfully written, acutely intelligent in its
historical judgements, this masterly biography finally does justice
to a forgotten Tudor princess
*John Guy*
Ring’s grasp of the sources is masterly and she condenses them into
wonderful pen portraits of Margaret’s acquaintances … Her accounts
of complex or contested events are attractively concise … An
excellent biography of a woman both architect and victim of Tudor
politics, “a woman who made unfixable mistakes but also realised
tremendous ambitions”. The price exacted by those ambitions was
terrible, particularly for Margaret and those she loved best, and
Ring’s treatment is worthy of the Greek tragedy that passed for her
life ****
*Daily Telegraph*
Impeccably researched ****
*Sunday Telegraph*
One woman who has inexplicably escaped the trawl until now,
Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox, is the subject of Morgan
Ring’s exuberant debut biography – and if you haven’t heard of her,
you have missed a historical treat Nigel Jones, Spectator, 6 May
2017
*Spectator*
This is a fresh, very readable take on a period that continues to
fascinate
*History Revealed*
Morgan Ring has written an absorbing account of Margaret’s life,
and has found a fresh angle from which to view the Tudor court,
which is no mean feat’
*Times Literary Supplement*
Ring’s impeccable biography traces how this neglected child of a
down-on-her-luck Scottish queen ended up a feared grande dame with
a network of spies
*Daily Telegraph*
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