What is in the book
England's first crowned queen ruled for five years, burned more than 280 Protestants alive, and made the country Protestant for good by doing it.
Mary Tudor spent half her life as a bastard. Her father had her mother's marriage annulled, married a younger woman, and declared his own daughter illegitimate. She survived by playing meek. She studied. She waited. She watched him execute two of his wives and die leaving a sickly boy on the throne.
- How an unwanted princess rode into East Anglia, raised an army at Framlingham and took the throne back off a rival queen who lasted nine days
- Why the woman who showed tactical brilliance seizing power made catastrophic errors keeping it
- What happens when you spend twenty years as a political victim, then suddenly hold absolute power
- The Spanish marriage to Philip that Parliament begged her not to make (she made it anyway)
- How the Marian burnings created Protestant martyrs who haunted England for centuries
- Where the name "Bloody Mary" actually came from, and why it took a century to stick
She thought burning heretics would save England's soul. Instead she guaranteed her name would become an insult.
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