Mary Queen of Scots, Antonia Fraser
Mary Queen of Scots, Antonia Fraser
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Mary Queen of Scots

Author: Antonia Fraser

Narrator: Anne Flosnik

Unabridged: 25 hr 3 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 05/22/2018


Synopsis

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.

About Antonia Fraser

Antonia Fraser is the author of many widely acclaimed historical works, including the biographies Cromwell: Our Chief of Men, King Charles II, and The Gunpowder Plot (CWA Nonfiction Gold Dagger; St Louis Literary Award). She has written five highly praised books which focus on women in history, The Weaker Vessel: Women's Lot in Seventeenth-Century England (Wolfson Award for History, 1984), The Warrior Queens: Boadiceas Chariot, The Six Wives of Henry VIII, Marie Antoinette: The Journey (Franco-British Literary Prize 2001), which was made into a film by Sofia Coppola in 2006, and Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King. Fraser was made CBE in 1999, and awarded the Norton Medlicott Medal by the Historical Association in 2000. She lives in London and has eighteen grandchildren.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Iain

As I turned 44 this month, it seemed an appropriate time to fill in a gap in my learning with this acclaimed biography of Mary Queen of Scots (executed aged 44 in 1587). A detailed account from birth to death, sticking to facts while also speculating on what might have been and pondering some of the......more

I have to admit that before reading this, I mainly knew Mary Queen of Scots from the film Elizabeth, where she was presented in a minor part as a sensual French Catholic traitor prolonging a bloody war with England. In actuality, her story is almost more fascinating than that of Elizabeth, her cousin......more