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Mary Queen of Scots

by Antonia Fraser Book 2 in the Women in History series.

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This biography follows Mary Stuart from her childhood as Queen of Scotland through her French marriage, return to Scotland, political isolation, imprisonment in England and execution. Fraser treats Mary as a dynastic ruler rather than simply as a romantic victim, setting her marriages, Catholic identity and claims to the English succession against the politics of Elizabethan Britain. The book is concerned with the forces that made Mary dangerous to her contemporaries: religion, legitimacy, faction, diplomacy and the uncertain boundaries between queenship and captivity.

Historical Periods

Rough Wooing1543–1551 CE French Wars of Religion1562–1598 CE Captivity of Mary, Queen of Scots in England1568–1587 CE

Historical people

Elizabeth I1533–1603 Mary, Queen of Scots1542–1587 James VI and I1566–1625

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