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Author of Marie Antoinette 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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Mary Queen of Scots, Antonia Fraser
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- Released
- 1969
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- Title
- Mary Queen of Scots
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Antonia Fraser
- Publisher
- Weidenfeld & Nicolson
- Released
- 1969
- Pages
- 613
- ISBN10
- 0297177737
- ISBN13
- 9780297177739
- Series
- Medieval Women Boxset
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Historical Themes, History, True Stories, Biographies, Women, Autobiographies & Memoirs, France, British Literature, Scotland, Struggle for Power, 16th century, Kings, Queens, Stuart Family
- First published
- 1993
- Original title
- Mary Queen of Scots
- Rating
- 4 out of 5
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- Author of Marie Antoinette 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.