The Myth of Bloody Mary A Biography of Queen

It is the tragedy of Queen Mary that today, 450 years after her death, she remains the most hated, least understood monarch in English historyremembered best for burning hundreds of Protestant heretics at the stake. Linda Porter's pioneering new biography cuts through the myths to reveal the truth about the first queen to rule England in her own right. Daughter of Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon, Mary Tudor was a cultured Renaissance princess who was brought to the throne by an audacious coup. She made a grand marriage to Philip of Spain, but her attempts to revitalize England at home and abroad were cut short by her early death at the age of forty-two. The first popular biography of Mary in thirty years,The Myth of "Bloody Mary"offers a fascinating, controversial look at this much-maligned queen.

Linda Porter has a Ph.D. in history from the University of York, England, and has lectured at universities in New York, worked as a journalist, and been a senior adviser on international public relations to a major telecommunications company. She was the winner of the 2004 Biographers Club/Daily Mail prize in England, which launched her on a new career as an author. She is married with one daughter and lives near London.

Acknowledgements	p. x
Prologue	p. 1
The Tudor Rose: 1516-1528	p. 5
Daughter of England, Child of Spain	p. 6
The Education of a Princess	p. 26
The Rejected Princess: 1528-1547	p. 47
The Queen and the Concubine	p. 48
Mary Abased	p. 81
The Quiet Years	p. 126
The Excluded Heiress: 1547-1553	p. 147
The Defiant Sister	p. 148
Mary Triumphant	p. 184
The Queen Without a King: 1553-1554	p. 225
Mary's England	p. 226
Wyatt's Rebellion	p. 263
King Philip	p. 307
The Neglected Wife: 1554-1558	p. 345
Mary Alone	p. 346
Triumph and Disaster	p. 379
Epilogue	p. 411
Select Bibliography	p. 419
Notes	p. 427
Index	p. 441
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The Myth of "Bloody Mary" A Biography of Queen Mary I of England

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