The Execution of Mary Queen of Scots: Being an Eyewitness Account Held in the Bute Archives at Mount Stuart

by Robert Wingfield of Upton, Antonia Fraser (Foreword)

The execution of Mary Queen of Scots within the castle of Fotheringhay on 8 February 1587 is one of the most sensational events in British history. Here - published in full for the first time - is one of the key eyewitness narratives of the execution prepared by Sir Robert Wingfield of Upton for his uncle, the authoritarian Lord Burghley, chief minister of Elizabeth I. Completed three days after the event it describes, Wingfield's account is a remarkably powerful, immediate and dramatic piece of reportage.

Edited with an introduction and postscript by Andrew McLean; foreword by Antonia Fraser.

40 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2007