![]() ![]() Fraser recounts the circumstances on the plot to murder Mary's second husband, Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, in detail. The book dismantles several myths and popular legends that have sprung up about Mary during and after her lifetime. ![]() Fraser stresses what she sees as Mary's key virtues but believes that Scotland at the time required an extraordinarily strong ruler to pull the nobles into line. A 40th-anniversary edition of the book was published in 2009.Īs she states in her "Author's Note", Fraser aims to test the truth or falsehood of the many legends on Mary and to set her in the context of the age in which she lived. Mary Queen of Scots (1969) is a biography of Mary, Queen of Scots, by Antonia Fraser. ![]()
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