The fate of this woman cannot be called happy, even though she was the queen of France. After all, she happened to live in the era of the Religious Wars; she was a direct witness to St. Bartholomew's Night and other bloody events associated with the schism of the Catholic Church. Admiring contemporaries praised her beauty and talked so much about love interests that since then, for several centuries, writers and poets, and in our time, filmmakers, have tirelessly turn to the legendary story of her life. Andre Castelo’s book is written on the basis of only facts and documents, so the reader is given a rare opportunity to get acquainted with the true biography of this real historical character, although, undoubtedly, having learned the secret of Margot the Queen, we will never we can solve the mystery of Margot the woman.