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Mary I (18 February 1516 – 17 November 1558), also known as Mary Tudor, and as "Bloody Mary" by her Protestant opponents, was Queen of England and Ireland from July 1553 and Queen of Spain as the wife of King Philip II from January 1556 until her death in 1558.
Bloody Mary: The Life of Mary Tudor (1978) Civilization and society in the West (1978) Josephine: A Life of the Empress (1980) Great Harry: The Extravagant Life of Henry Viii (1980) Royal Panoply: Brief Lives of the English Monarchs (1980) (Brief Lives of the English Monarchs (2007) The First Elizabeth (1983) Mistress Anne (1984)
Queen Mary appears as a main character in Rosamund Gravelle's debut play Three Queens, [6] [7] and first played by Becky Black. Set in 1554 the play is about a fictional encounter between Queen Mary I of England, Lady Jane Grey, and Princess Elizabeth Tudor, brought together by their cousin, Cardinal Reginald Pole, the night before Lady Jane Grey is due to be executed.
Her first book, Mary Tudor: The First Queen was published in 2007. It was a biography of Queen Mary I of England presented a view of Mary as a decisive and clear-headed ruler, and a skilled political and diplomatic operator. [2] In 2010, her second book Katherine the Queen: The Remarkable Life of Katherine Parr was published. [3]
Protestants were executed in England under heresy laws during the reigns of Henry VIII (1509–1547) and Mary I (1553–1558), and in smaller numbers during the reigns of Edward VI (1547–1553), Elizabeth I (1558–1603), and James I (1603–1625). Most were executed in the short reign of Mary I in what is called the Marian persecutions.
Bones recovered from the 1545 Mary Rose shipwreck reveal new insights about life for the crew in Tudor England as well as shed light on how work changes our bones. A Tudor warship sank nearly 500 ...
Mary Tudor (/ ˈ tj uː d ər / TEW-dər; 18 March 1496 – 25 June 1533) was an English princess who was briefly Queen of France as the third wife of King Louis XII. Louis was more than 30 years her senior.
Her PhD was awarded in 2004 for a doctoral thesis titled "In opposition and in government: the households and affinities of Mary Tudor 1516-1558". [ 3 ] She is Professor in the History of Monarchy at City, University of London , having previously taught at Royal Holloway, University of London .