Mary, Queen of Scots - The Illustrated Collector's Edition

Author: (Austria) Stefan Zweig
Translator: Huang Jingfu Hao Yajuan
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: The birth of Mary Stuart forever altered the histories of Scotland, England, and France. She is remembered for her beauty and tragedy, forever living in works and debates. Mary Stuart became Queen of Scotland six days after her birth, a fiancée of one of Europe's most powerful princes at the age of six, and a French queen at seventeen. Her spiritual life had not yet truly begun, yet her power had reached its peak. By the time she was under 25, her life was essentially over. She attended the weddings of two husbands, lost two kingdoms, wandered the dark path of crime, and spent time in prison, but each time she rose to the throne and walked down the aisle again. Her life was like a flame, its glow still shining centuries later. As she was led to the guillotine, she prepared a blood-red dress and elbow-length blood-red gloves to avoid the blood splattered on her clothes during the execution from being too glaring.