SummaryA new novel of sixteenth-century royalty from the author
of A Question of Guilt
Her name was Mary Tudor. First of the Tudor queens, she has
gone down in history as Bloody Mary. But does she deserve
her vicious reputation?
She was the daughter of Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon,
and half-sister to Edward VI and Elizabeth I. Mary Tudor's
life began as the sweetly innocent, pampered princess of
Wales—until the age of eleven when the father she
adored cast aside the mother she worshipped and declared
Mary a bastard. Only after years of exile did Mary finally
rise to the throne alongside the man who, aside from her
father, was her greatest love—and her greatest betrayer.
Told by Mary herself and the people around her, this
grand-scale novel takes us back to the glittering court of
sixteenth-century England, and tells the tragic story of a
fascinating, largely misunderstood woman who withstood the
treachery and passion around her only to become one of
England's most vilified queens.
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