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Mary, Queen of Scots

Antonia Fraser

#1014 of 3,809 books · #391 in Biography & Memoir

Won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography (1969).

She was the quintessential queen: statuesque, regal, dazzlingly beautiful. Her royal birth gave her claim to the thrones of two nations; her marriage to the young French dauphin promised to place a third glorious crown on her noble head. Instead, Mary Stuart became the victim of her own impulsive heart, scandalizing her world with a foolish passion that would lead to abduction, rape and even murder. Betrayed by those she most trusted, she would be lured into a deadly game of power, only to lose to her envious and unforgiving cousin, Elizabeth I. Here is her story, a queen who lost a throne for love, a monarch pampered and adored even as she was led to her beheading, the unforgettable woman who became a legend for all time.

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Publisher
Galahad Books
ISBN-13
9780297775225
Topics
Mary Queen of ScotsScottish and English monarchy16th-century royal politics

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