About the book: 1997 / Queen Mary of England, the granddaughter of the executed King Charles I and the daughter of the deprived James II of the crown, grew up at the dissolute court of her uncle Charles II, her husband was the sanctimonious and prim Puritan William III. Mary was not born for power, she wanted to love and be loved. Fate prepared for her to betray one person, the person closest to her, for the sake of another and, having lost the love of the first, receive in return the contemptuous indifference of the second. In her life there was power and authority, but there was no happiness.