La Reine Blanche: Mary Tudor, A Life in Letters

La Reine Blanche: Mary Tudor, A Life in Letters

by Sarah Bryson
La Reine Blanche: Mary Tudor, A Life in Letters

La Reine Blanche: Mary Tudor, A Life in Letters

by Sarah Bryson

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Overview

Mary Tudor’s childhood was overshadowed by the men in her life: her father, Henry VII, and her brothers Arthur, heir to the Tudor throne, and Henry VIII. These men and the beliefs held about women at the time helped to shape Mary’s life. She was trained to be a dutiful wife and at the age of 18 married the French king, Louis XII, 34 years her senior. When her husband died three months after the marriage, Mary took charge of her life and shaped her own destiny. As a young widow, had the opportunity to show the world the strong, self-willed, determined woman she always had been. She remarried for love and at great personal risk to herself. She loved and respected Katherine of Aragon and despised Anne Boleyn—a dangerous position to take. Sarah Bryson has returned to primary sources, state papers and letters, to unearth the truth about Mary Tudor, whose story is told through her own words for the first time.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781398103375
Publisher: Amberley Publishing
Publication date: 02/15/2022
Pages: 288
Product dimensions: 5.08(w) x 7.80(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Sarah Bryson has run a website dedicated to Tudor history for many years and is the author of Mary Boleyn: In a Nutshell and Charles Brandon: The King's Man

Table of Contents

Introduction 9

1 The Rise of the Tudor Dynasty 13

2 A Rose Blooms 24

3 Of Deaths, Marriages and Rebellions 41

4 Princess of Castile 53

5 Thy Brother the King 69

6 Nymph from Heaven 91

7 The French Queen 115

8 The White Queen 138

9 As Wife and Mother 181

10 Concerning France 197

11 The Final Years 213

12 Legacy 233

13 Beautiful Without Artifice 239

Timeline 246

Notes 257

Bibliography 275

Index 282

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