Bloody Mary

Here is the tragic stormy life of Mary Tudor daughter of Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon. Her story is a chronicle of courage and faith betrayal and treachery-set amidst the splendor pageantry squalor and intrigue of sixteenth-century Europe.The history of Mary Tudor is an improbable blend of triumph humiliation heartbreak and devotion-and Ms. Erickson recounts it all against the turbulent background of European politics war and religious strife of the mid-1500s. The result is a rare portrait of the times and of a woman elevated to unprecedented power in a world ruled and defined by men.