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Mary I: The Daughter of Time

By John Edwards

Book information

Publisher
Penguin UK
Year
2017
ISBN
024118410X, 9780241184103
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
16 MB (16511232 bytes)
Series
Penguin Monarchs
Pages
112\0
Time added
2017-05-21 19:14:41
Great Britain;Europe;Historical;Biographies & Memo

Description

Mary I (1553-58) became England's ruler on the unexpected death of her brother Edward VI. Her short reign is one of the great potential turning points in the country's history. As a convinced Catholic and the wife of Philip II, king of Spain and the most powerful of all European monarchs, Mary could have completely changed her country's orbit, making it a province of the Habsburg Empire and obedient again to Rome. These extraordinary possibilities are fully dramatized in John Edward's superb short biography. The real Mary I has almost disappeared under the great mass of Protestant propaganda that buried her reputation during her younger sister, Elizabeth I's reign. But what if she had succeeded?

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