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The Passionate Tudor: A Novel of Queen Mary I

The Passionate Tudor: A Novel of Queen Mary I

Weir, Alison

Hardcover

General FictionHistorical Fiction

Publisher Price: $30.00

ISBN10: 0593355105
ISBN13: 9780593355107
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: May 28 2024
Pages: 528
Weight: 1.75
Height: 2.00 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.50
Language: English
The New York Times bestselling author of the Six Tudor Queens series explores the dramatic and poignant life of King Henry VIII's daughter--infamously known as Bloody Mary--who ruled England for five violent years.

An exquisitely drawn, poignant portrayal of one of history's most complex, maligned, and fascinating figures.--Tracy Borman, author of Anne Boleyn & Elizabeth I

Born from young King Henry's first marriage, his elder daughter, Princess Mary, is raised to be queen once it becomes clear that her mother, Katherine of Aragon, will bear no more children. However, Henry's passion for Anne Boleyn has a devastating influence on the young princess's future when, determined to sire a male heir, he marries Anne, has his marriage to Katherine declared unlawful, brands Mary illegitimate, and banishes them both from the royal court. But when Anne too fails to produce a son, she is beheaded and Mary is allowed to return to court as the default heir. At age twenty, she waits in vain for her own marriage and children, but who will marry her, bastard that she is?

Yet Mary eventually triumphs and becomes queen, after first deposing a seventeen-year-old usurper, Lady Jane Grey, and ordering her beheading. Any hopes that Mary, as the first female queen regent of England, will show religious toleration are dashed when she embarks on a ruthless campaign to force Catholicism on the English by burning hundreds of Protestants at the stake. But while her brutality will forever earn her the name Bloody Mary, at heart she is an insecure and vulnerable woman, her character forged by the unhappiness of her early years.

In Alison Weir's masterful novel, the drama of Mary I's life and five-year reign--from her abusive childhood, marriage, and mysterious pregnancies to the cruelty that marks her legacy--comes to vivid life.

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