Something about Mary
Diarmaid MacCulloch: The First Queen of England, 18 October 2007
Mary Tudor: The Tragical History of the First Queen of England
by David Loades.
National Archives, 240 pp., £19.99, September 2006,1 903365 98 8 Show More
by David Loades.
National Archives, 240 pp., £19.99, September 2006,
“... her definite superior in intelligence: the only one of Henry’s six wives whose marriage to the king was regularly called her ‘reign’ by contemporaries. That she had a mind of her own and was not afraid to use it is the most plausible explanation of her eventual downfall in 1536. Eric Ives’s biography of Anne, published in 2004, revealed her as a ... ”