Royal Road to Fotheringhay: The Story of Mary, Queen of Scots Paperback - 2004
by Jean Plaidy
- Used
- Paperback
The author follows the tragic character of Mary, Queen of Scots, from the charming child-queen who longed for excitement through a tumultuous and tragic adulthood. Mary stood at the center of political intrigues and in the sights of dangerous rivals, but her understanding of her court and the world lends a heartwarming aspect to this tale of power, peril, and love.
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Details
- Title Royal Road to Fotheringhay: The Story of Mary, Queen of Scots
- Author Jean Plaidy
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 352
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Crown, NY USA
- Date November 2004
- Bookseller's Inventory # 232102
- ISBN 9780609810231 / 0609810235
- Weight 0.57 lbs (0.26 kg)
- Dimensions 8.08 x 5.24 x 0.76 in (20.52 x 13.31 x 1.93 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 16th Century
- Cultural Region: British
- Library of Congress subjects Historical fiction, Biographical fiction
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2004275887
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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From the publisher
From the jacket flap
Mary Stuart became Queen of Scotland at the tender age of six days old. Her French-born mother, the Queen Regent, knew immediately that the infant queen would be a vulnerable pawn in the power struggle between Scotland's clans and nobles. So Mary was sent away from the land of her birth and raised in the sophisticated and glittering court of France. Unusually tall and slim, a writer of music and poetry, Mary was celebrated throughout Europe for her beauty and intellect. Married in her teens to the Dauphin Franois, she would become not only Queen of Scotland but Queen of France as well. But Mary's happiness was short-lived. Her husband, always sickly, died after only two years on the throne, and there was no place for Mary in the court of the new king. At the age of twenty, she returned to Scotland, a place she barely knew.
Once home, the Queen of Scots discovered she was a stranger in her own country. She spoke only French and was a devout Catholic in a land of stern Presbyterians. Her nation was controlled by a quarrelsome group of lords, including her illegitimate half brother, the Earl of Moray, and by John Knox, a fire-and-brimstone Calvinist preacher, who denounced the young queen as a Papist and a whore. Mary eventually remarried, hoping to find a loving ally in the Scottish Lord Darnley. But Darnley proved violent and untrustworthy. When he died mysteriously, suspicion fell on Mary. In haste, she married Lord Bothwell, the prime suspect in her husband's murder, a move that outraged all of Scotland. When her nobles rose against her, the disgracedQueen of Scots fled to England, hoping to be taken in by her cousin Elizabeth I. But Mary's flight from Scotland led not to safety, but to Fotheringhay Castle...
"Plaidy excels at blending history with romance and drama." --"New York Times
