More than four hundred years after her death, Mary Queen of Scots remains one of the most romantic and controversial figures in British history. Antonia Fraser's classic biography of her won the James Tait Prize when it was first published in 1969, became an international bestseller and was translated into nine languages. Mary 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. Includes an Index.

(Key Words: Monarchy, Queens, Great Britain, Biography, Mary Stuart, Spain, Scotland, Antonia Fraser, Thomas Randolph, William Maitland, France, William Cecil, Elizabeth I)