![]() ![]() She is intimated again and again in plots of treason against her brother, Edward VI. She is ruthlessly persecuted for her never-failing Catholic beliefs. With anticipation and heartbreak we learn of Mary’s endless betrothals to this or that European sovereign, yet by the end of the book she is still an unmarried spinster in her thirties. She watched as Katherine Howard met her bloody fate and looked on at her father’s last years at the side of Catherine Parr. She was hated by Anne Boleyn and banished from court. The book delivered well, describing not only Mary’s relationship with her mother, Catherine of Aragon, and her father, King Henry VIII, but also her experience with her five step-mothers. ![]() The inside cover described the journey of a sweet, kind, loving young woman who in later history was only remembered for her fanatical acts of cruelty against Protestants. I thought I had found a jackpot in I Am Mary Tudor. After reading I, Elizabeth by Rosalind Miles (a fantastic autobiographical account of Queen Elizabeth I, which I highly recommend if the subject interests you), I was eager to read more about Elizabeth’s half-sister, Queen Mary I, the infamous “Bloody Mary”. ![]()
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