Few English monarchs have a worse reputation than Mary Tudor. She has been seen both as a religious fanatic who tried against the will of her people to reverse the course of the Reformation and as the pawn of her husband, Philip II of Spain -- her infatuation with whom led her to betray Englanda s vital interests. How this pious, and by contemporary accounts, gentle woman aroused an antipathy that survives until the present is a central question in David Loadesa s sensitive biography, now in paperback. Based on research into the documents of the time (many newly uncovered) the compelling story of Marya s life is revealed here in unprecedented detail and depth, packed with incident and intrigue, and enmeshed in the politics of secular and religious struggle in England and Europe.
- ISBN10 1903365988
- ISBN13 9781903365984
- Publish Date 30 September 2006 (first published 21 April 1992)
- Publish Status Transferred
- Out of Print 19 March 2008
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Imprint The National Archives
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 224
- Language English