CONTENTS

Chronology

Prologue: Birth of Royal Rumour

Introduction: Queen Victoria’s Scottish Inheritance

1. Child of the Mountains

2. Fascinating Johnny Brown

3. To Serve Her All His Days

4. All the Secrets of the Universe

5. To Kill the Queen

6. Sickle of the Reaper

7. Trial by Gossip

Epilogue: Scenes at a Royal Deathbed

Appendix 1: Holograph letter from Queen Victoria

Appendix 2: Queen Victoria’s Children and Their Antipathy to John Brown

Notes

Bibliography

Acknowledgements