Mary Queen of Scots
Author(s): Antonia Fraser
Mary Queen of Scots passed her childhood in France and married the Dauphin to become Queen of France at the age of sixteen. Widowed less than two years later, she returned to Scotland as Queen after an absence of thirteen years. Her life then entered its best known phase: the early struggles with John Knox, and the unruly Scottish nobility; the fatal marriage to Darnley and his mysterious death; her marriage to Bothwell, the chief suspect, that led directly to her long English captivity at the hands of Queen Elizabeth; the poignant and extraordinary story of her long imprisonment that ended with the labyrinthine Babington plot to free her, and her execution at the age of forty-four.
General Information
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- : Phoenix (Orion)
- : 0.618
- : 01 March 2009
- : 198mm X 129mm X 45mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Other Specifications
- : Antonia Fraser
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- : 824
- : 24 B/W Photo\Illu(s)
More About The Product
Reissued on the 40th anniversary of its first publication Antonia Fraser is one the world's best known historians and was made CBE in 1999 MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS won the James Tait Prize It has been translated into nine languages THE SIX WIVES OF HENRY VIII sold over 150,000 copies in hardback alone Sofia Coppola's movie MARIE ANTOINETTE starring Kirsten Dunst is based on Antonia Fraser's biography 'Lady Antonia Fraser tells Mary's story movingly and yet with scholarship, insight and balance. It is the sort of biography of Mary which has long been needed' Scotsman 'Fraser is at her best here, lucid, authoritative and compassionate' Sunday Times 'This is a fine biography, sympathetic without sentimentality, and with a keen awareness of the texture of its subject's world' Literary Review 'Fraser writes with fluent flair' Sunday Telegraph 'Antonia Fraser long ago mastered the art of writing meticulous history so that it reads like an engrossing novel' Sunday Times
