The Young Mary Queen of Scots

Famous childhoods #2

by Jean Plaidy

A hasty departure from Scotland, where the English peril preyed continuously on the infant Catholic queen, and a voyage to France into a hotbed of court intrigue - these were the formative years of Mary Stewart, which led to her betrothal at the age of five to the frail Dauphin, Francis. His early death came as a great sorrow to Mary, but as cruel triumph to his mother, Catherine de Medici. Mary's early life and the political wrangling in France are vividly related to Jean Plaidy, and when Mary, widowed and torn between her love for France and duty to Scotland, returns to the land which she last saw as a little girl, a revealing light is shed on her troubled life as Mary, Queen of Scots.

Genres: Historical Fiction, Historical

128 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1962

About the author

Eleanor Alice Burford, Mrs. George Percival Hibbert was a British author of about 200 historical novels, most of them under the pen name Jean Plaidy which had sold 14 million copies by the time of her death. She chose to use various names because of the differences in subject matter between her books; the best-known, apart from Plaidy, are Victoria Holt (56 million) and Philippa Carr (3 million). Lesser known were the novels Hibbert published under her maiden name Eleanor Burford, or the pseudonyms of Elbur Ford, Kathleen Kellow and Ellalice Tate. Many of her readers under one penname never suspected her other identities.
-Wikipedia