The History of Mary I, Queen of England
as found in the public records, despatches of ambassadors, in original private letters, and other contemporary documents
J. M. Stone, an English Catholic historian, wrote The History of Mary I, Queen of England to restate the case for the first queen to rule England in her own right, at a time when old verdicts on her were being revised. Drawing on Mary's privy purse accounts, the life of her lady-in-waiting Jane Dormer and documents scattered through the archives of Europe, Stone follows Mary from her childhood as the cherished daughter of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon, through the humiliations of the divorce and her brother's reign, to her accession, her marriage to Philip of Spain and the restoration of Catholicism. Sympathetic and well documented, it offers a deliberate counterweight to the Protestant image of Bloody Mary. The full text is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, and the first chapter is free.
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