Mary, Queen of Scots follows a monarch whose life connected the courts and religious conflicts of Scotland, France and England. It traces her childhood in France, brief queenship there and return to a Scotland transformed by Protestant reform.
The biography examines her marriages, the murder of Lord Darnley, her association with Bothwell and the rebellion that forced her abdication. Her long captivity under Elizabeth I and execution after the Babington Plot are considered alongside the enduring romantic and political myths surrounding her.
