Velvet Cage

A queen imprisoned. A household under siege. A woman who refuses to bend. In 1570, Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, arrives at Hardwick Hall not as a guest, but as a royal captive. Ordered by Elizabeth I to keep her cousin "e;honourably lodged,"e; Bess of Hardwick, Countess of Shrewsbury, finds her formidable household transformed into a gilded prison, and herself cast as both hostess and jailer.As Ma...