Political intrigues and secret conspiracies, stormy love and knightly duels, the peculiar life of the medieval royal courts... You will read about this and much more with unflagging interest on the pages of Ernst Pitaval’s novel “The Queen’s Head”, published for the first time in the last seventy years in Russia . At the center of the story is the confrontation between two famous women of the 16th century - the Scottish Queen Mary Stuart and the English Queen Elizabeth I Tudor. The first volume of the trilogy, published by Belfry-MG JSC, included the book “In the Struggle for the Throne” and the beginning of the book “Palace Passions” .