Mary Queen of Scots passed her childhood in France and married the Dauphin to become Queen ... more
of France at the age of sixteen. Widowed less than two years later she returned to Scotland as Queen after an absence of thirteen years. Her life then entered i...
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Advantages: Funny, lots of information, nicely presented Disadvantages: Best for children
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This book is part of the quite popular Dead Famous series which I quite recently got in a box set and each book averaged out at about £2 instead of the usual £4.99 which was quite a bargain and encouraged me to buy these books! The books is 208 pages long but could be read quite quickly die to the fact it is similar to the Horrible History books and has various cartoons, letters, pictures in it which keep the book from being boring but also take up quite a large amount of room.
This particular book is all about MaryQueen of Scots and her exciting life. Within a week of being born her father died so Mary became Queen of Scots and a monarch ? not bad! She is soon sent over to France to marry her first husband who was a bit useless and was also Queen ...
Advantages: Well Written, A Great Story of the Life of Marie Antoinette Disadvantages: Can be Quiet Complex in Places, Gets Confusing with the Politics and Names
, masked balls and excessive expenditure on clothing. These later were to create her downfall and dislike by the French Court and the French people by the excessive rumors and scandals associated with her life. Fraser portrays the Queens ignorance and naivety to these as she surrounded herself in a fantasy world at Versailles.
Once i started reading this book i could not put it down, and began further researching into the Life of the Queen. Fraser holds a compassionate and modern perspective of her life and produces excessive and concrete evidence that blows apart the scandals and rumors that created Marie's eventual downfall as Queen and acted as the catalyst of the French Revolution. Fraser demonstrates how the Queen was cast as the scapegoat of the country economic failings and was cast as a traitor to the people.
This book does get ...
Advantages: Very readable, interesting, informative Disadvantages: Sometimes lacking in detail, descriptions of executions
Marie Antoinette is a widely known historical personnage - infamous for her callousness towards the starving peasants ("Let them eat cake!") and for having her head chopped off during the French Revolution, a victim of the guillotine, yet few attempts have ever been made to go beyond the stereotypes and actually investigate the character of this celebrity queen.
Noted historian AntoniaFraser aims to correct this, and has largely succeeded in a very sympathetic biography of the Queen that not only defeats the popular misconceptions surrounding the Queen's character but draws upon an extensive array of historical sources (including a dazzling number of primary sources) to create a complete picture of who this woman actually was. Fraser's second purpose is to trace the evolution of the Queen, from shy and inexperienced Princess to ...
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Product details
EAN
9781842126349
Type
Non-Fiction
Genre
Biography
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co
Title
Mary Queen of Scots
Author
Antonia Fraser
ISBN
1842126342
Manufacturer's product description
Mary Queen of Scots passed her childhood in France and married the Dauphin to become Queen of France at the age of sixteen. Widowed less than two years later she returned to Scotland as Queen after an absence of thirteen years. Her life then entered its best known phase: the early struggles with John Knox and the unruly Scottish nobility; the fatal marriage to Darnley and his mysterious death; her marriage to Bothwell the chief suspect that led directly to her long English captivity at the hands of Queen Elizabeth; the poignant and extraordinary story of her long imprisonment that ended with the labyrinthine Babington plot to free her and her execution at the age of forty-four.
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