Lively, well-researched group biography of the Royal Stuarts, Scotland's rulers for three centuries and later England's. Sympathetic treatment of Mary, Queen of Scots, reflects the author's belief that propaganda has frequently been accepted as true.

"Prince Charles Edward Louis John Casimir Sylvester Severino Maria Stuart (31 December 1720? 31 January 1788) commonly known as Bonnie Prince Charlie or The Young Pretender was the second Jacobite pretender to the thrones of England, Scotland, and Ireland. This claim was as the eldest son of James Francis Edward Stuart, himself the son of King James VII and II. Charles is perhaps best known as the instigator of the unsuccessful Jacobite uprising of...