Since 1969 Antonia Fraser has written many acclaimed historical works which have been international bestsellers and is the recipient of many literary awards, including the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. These include the biographies Cromwell: Our Chief of Men and King Charles II and the history Faith and Treason: The Story of the Gunpowder Plot. Three highly praised books focus on women in history: The Weaker Vessel: Women’s Lot in Seventeenth-Century England, The Warrior Queens, and The Six Wives of Henry VIII. Her most recent book was Marie Antoinette. She is editor of the series Kings and Queens of England. Antonia Fraser is married to the playwright Harold Pinter and lives in London.

CONTENTS:

PART ONE – THE YOUNG QUEEN
1. All Men Lamented
2. England’s Rough Wooing
3. The Most Perfect Child
4. Betrothal
5. Queen-Dauphiness
6. The White Lily of France
7. Mary the Widow

PART TWO – THE PERSONAL RULE
8. The State of the Realm
9. Conciliation and Reconciliation
10. Governor Good and Gracious
11. The Fall of Huntly
12. A Husband for a Girl
13. The Carnal Marriage
14. Our Most Special Servant
15. Breakdown
16. The Murder of Darnley
17. The Mermaid and the Hare
18. Lochleven

PART THREE – THE CAPTIVITY
19. In Foreign Bands
20. Her Privy Letters
21. My Norfolk
22. The Uses of Adversity
23. Mother and Son
24. The Babington Plot
25. Trial
26. The Dolorous Stroke
27. Epilogue: The Theatre of the World