Crowned Queen of Scotland at just six days old, Mary Stuart is one of the most enigmatic and fascinating figures of her time. Her life and travails have sparked the curiosity of countless scholars. Educated in France, refined, cultured, and beautiful, her adherence to Catholicism during the turbulent era of the Protestant Revolts, the complicated politics of succession in England, and the political fragility of the Kingdom of Scotland transformed her into a scheming traitor and a saint of the Catholic Church at the same time. The portrait of an entire era.