The King's Pearl: Henry VIII and His Daughter Mary

Mary Tudor has always been known as "Bloody Mary," named by later Protestant chroniclers who vilified her for attempting to re-impose Roman Catholicism in England. Although a more nuanced picture of the first queen regent has since emerged, she is still depicted as a tragic figure, isolated after the annulment of her parents’ marriage and rescued from obscurity by Katherine Parr. Although Henry doted on Mary, her determination to side with her mother hurt him as a father and damaged percept...