Sigrid-Maria Größing

This is a series of quite good essays on various aspects of the Spanish Habsburgs. While each essay in itself is quite interesting, they overlap, and skip about so that the whole is less than its parts would lead you to expect.

History light. Many of the incidents are interesting, but the details of people I have read about in other books don't always agree.

The worst was the statement that Mary, Queen of Scots made the mistake of having open love affairs, in contrast with Eliizabeth I of England who kept her affairs secret. It does not seem serious to me to state outright that Elizabeth had lovers, as my understanding is that we just don't know.