Mary Queen of Scots

By Stefan Zweig

Categories: Biographies & Memoirs, History

Stefan Zweig's 1935 biography follows Mary Stuart from her childhood as a queen at the French court through her return to Scotland, her marriages to Darnley and Bothwell and her flight to England. Zweig dwells on the rivalry with her cousin Elizabeth I, the murder of Darnley and the casket letters, and the long captivity that ended with Mary's execution at Fotheringhay in 1587, reading her life as a tragedy of passion.

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