by Jean Plaidy · Arrow Books LTD · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099588047
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«Royal Road to Fotheringay» is the historical novel by Jean Plaidy, published by Arrow Books in paperback (494 pages, in English).
The novel follows Mary Stuart from her childhood, when she is taken to the French court and becomes Queen of France, to her return to Scotland, where a Catholic queen must govern a Protestant country and decide her marriage wisely. Plaidy weaves history, romance and courtly intrigues in the portrait of a monarch marked by her lineage.
The first instalment of Jean Plaidy's Stuart saga was originally published in 1955.
It is a read for fans of historical fiction and sixteenth-century court drama, with particular interest in the figure of Mary Stuart.
Eleanor Alice Hibbert was an English writer of historical romances. She was a prolific writer who published several books a year in different literary genres, each genre under a different pen name: Jean Plaidy for fictionalized history of European royalty and the three volumes of her history of the Spanish Inquisition, Victoria Holt for gothic romances, and Philippa Carr for a multi-generational family saga. She also wrote light romances, crime novels, murder mysteries and thrillers under pseudonyms Eleanor Burford, Elbur Ford, Kathleen Kellow, Anna Percival, and Ellalice Tate.
