This film was produced during a cycle of lavish historical anti-British propaganda films made by UFA during the Nazi regime.
One of the few dramatizations of Mary Stuart's story to correctly show Mary and Elizabeth never meeting with each other.
Originally, the cast & crew were signed on to film a biopic on Catherine the Great of Russia, with star Zarah Leander in the title role, but once war broke out between Germany and the Soviet Union, Joseph Goebbels ordered the film scrapped and the production team was told to make a film about Mary Stuart instead.
Postwar German censorship visa # 05156 delivered on 17-11-1952, renewed on 17-11-1971.
Debut of actress Margot Hielscher.