aka “Mary Tudor” (or later “Bloody Mary”) played with extraordinary likeability by Shannon Taylor as the daughter of Henry VIII and his first wife, Catherine of Aragon, a Catholic.

Mary Tudor is remembered as the first female monarch of England. But her path to the throne was far from guaranteed. When Mary was 17, her father King Henry VIII broke with the Catholic Church to ...

She was the elder daughter of Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk (d.1545) and his third wife Mary Tudor (d.1533), sister of King Henry VIII and widow of King Louis XII of France. She was born on 16th ...

However, Mary became queen and Jane was executed. Not everyone considers Lady Jane Gray to be one of the Tudors. Before Henry Tudor became king he had to win the crown from King Richard III.

She was loved, she was a princess, heir to the throne - but the childhood fairytale turned to lifelong nightmare for Mary Tudor, Henry VIII's first child. When Henry divorced her mother and ...

The Fabulous Frick Redo, a Fundraising and Architectural Success A visit with the original Bloody Mary and world-bestriding ... first part of my story on The Tudors: Art and Majesty in Renaissance ...