Fatal Rivalry Quotes

“Like their predecessors, these Stewart rulers described themselves not as kings of Scotland but as kings of Scots. They were at the apex of a pyramid of respect and obligation based on actual or assumed kinship that went from the bottom of society to the very top and made the king the 'father' of his people.”
― George Goodwin, Fatal Rivalry: Flodden, 1513: Henry VIII and James IV and the Decisive Battle for Renaissance Britain