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Porter's is an excellent biography of Mary I of England. Being an ardent reader of that dynasty's imprint on history, I sorely missed finding anything of substance of probably the one most cheated of the family -- Mary, daughter of Henry VIII. What reading is out there usually portrays her as sickly, neurotic, obsessed by dear old Philip of Sprain, and of course being "Bloody". But now at last, thanks to Linda Porter's diligent research and wonderful writing style, I've learned of Mary's accomplishments. Which makes sense being that she was on the throne for five years: legal coding, infrastructure, stabilizing of the political system, building, and more. And about her "bloodiness" -- I was compelled to make a quick comparison of how many heads were chopped off, how many hangings and quarterings, and burnings at the stake were brought about by her father -- the real lunatic tyrant, Henry VIII. And, of course, Mary's sister, the illustrious queen Elizabeth II, was even more bloody. I invite other readers to do a little more research on the topic. Try it. It's an eye-opener. In the meantime "The First Queen of England" is a marvelous read. Five stars!


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I love anything about the Tudors and people surrounding them. I thought this book was very well written, although I want to find more on Mary and others. I feel like I got lost in some of it.

I was very sad for Mary and her upbringing. Obviously being Henry's child is not all it's cracked up to be. She went through so much with her father. That being said, she did have his Tudor blood and stood up for herself at all possible times. You would think that Henry would at one point think, she is definately my child!!

I am glad that he FINALLY saw reason and brought her back into her rightful place along with her sister Elizabeth. Then the little jerk brother takes it all away from them again and she has to fight to get her status back again! The brat! But she did and so did Elizabeth.

I was so sad to read in this book of Anne of Cleves passing. I know they all pass away at some point, but I really loved her and it was a little sad to read of her passing. Mary mourned her passing, along with many others.

I look forward to many more Tudor books.
Since we're celebrating Mary I's four hundred and sixtieth one anniversary of her coronation I will start by recommending the best in my opinion biography of her by Linda Porter.
The Myth of Bloody Mary is one engrossing biography that explores the psychology of Mary Tudor not just as a person but as a royal person which is something that is so hard for us to grasp sometimes in modern times. Mary Tudor's childhood was far from the idyllic life we often think it was when we compare her to her sister who we all agree had a much more complicated one. Yet, Mary was raised at a very young age to excel in every science and subject she was taught. Mary began by being taught languages, rhetoric -the art of conversation and manipulating the truth through oration or written words. Her mother was deeply religious, something that wasn't strange for the age Porter tells us but she was also highly educated, one of the most educated women at the time in fact.
Juan Luis Vives despite his rigid instructions on educating women in his books was actually meant for her mother to instruct her more on humanism and in one of his many books, he wrote on Katherine, praising her for her charity but most of all for her intelligence and her appreciation of art and other great subjects. And then there was her father who also surrounded himself with artists and scholars. By all means, Mary was prepared to be not just a queen but a renaissance queen at that. But as we all know life doesn't go like a fairy tale an a number of factors that Linda Porter meticulously researched and explains on the book, were involved with Mary turning the way she did and most of these were not her fault but were inherited from her father's last years of government with his expensive wars in France and Scotland and also with her brother's mismanagement -owed in part to his first lord protector and those that came after him.
What is exemplary in this biography is that Porter makes no excuses for Mary and doesn't white brush her story but instead she includes all the gruesome facts that were part of her world and later her reign as well as how her beliefs, as much as they gave her strength at times, they also hindered her.
It's a good biography for anyone that wants to find more about Mary and once and for all get the record straight on her. Mary I was as Porter points out the first Queen Regnant in English history and she set the precedent for all those that came after her and she reformed the church which she was very aware was corrupt and sharing her late grandmother's disdain with corrupt priests and officials, she kicked them out of office and supplanted them not just with honest men, but honest men who could, read, write and inspire love and admiration to their flock! She also did something to fix the economy by reissuing a new coinage that continued well into the 1700s, established new canals, refounded universities and funded new ones, reintroduced a humanist curriculum, inspected her troops and gave a triumphant speech which mirrors that of her sister at Tilbury, bettered the navy and much more changes that her sister adopted or continued with in her reign.

But of course history is written by the winners and not necessarily the Elizabethans but the generations that came afterwards that saw Mary's Spanish heritage as obscene and degrading because she was simply not pure English, something that it is so ridiculous, Porter explains, as most monarchs had their bloodlines so mixed that no one could be considered pure-English. Nevertheless, this and other factors reshaped her history until now.
Absolutely outstanding history of King Henry VIII's eldest daughter. Really well written, thoroughly researched. Interesting, kept me reading for an entire week. Not dry at all, which is unusual for most books that could be considered non-fiction.
I have been engrossed with reading about everything having to do with King Henry VIII, his six wives and his three children (five if you count his illegitimate son Fitzroy by Bessie Blount - and what may be Mary Boleyn's unacknowledged daughter) for the last.

This book is the best background you could ever read to explain the royal circumstances and thinking of the actions of that era.

The only thing i would like to add, is that I believe Anne Boleyn's execution was delayed several times to ensure that anyone who might carry sympathetic reports of her, and outrage at the King due to the lies regarding her alleged adulteries, was removed from the "invites" to the execution. Some were sent away, the remaining crowd far smaller and controlled with the general public not allowed to witness; and , with Kingston being given instructions from Cromwell that should Queen Anne speak negatively of the King, to stop her from speaking.
Porter's is an excellent biography of Mary I of England. Being an ardent reader of that dynasty's imprint on history, I sorely missed finding anything of substance of probably the one most cheated of the family -- Mary, daughter of Henry VIII. What reading is out there usually portrays her as sickly, neurotic, obsessed by dear old Philip of Sprain, and of course being "Bloody". But now at last, thanks to Linda Porter's diligent research and wonderful writing style, I've learned of Mary's accomplishments. Which makes sense being that she was on the throne for five years legal coding, infrastructure, stabilizing of the political system, building, and more. And about her "bloodiness" -- I was compelled to make a quick comparison of how many heads were chopped off, how many hangings and quarterings, and burnings at the stake were brought about by her father -- the real lunatic tyrant, Henry VIII. And, of course, Mary's sister, the illustrious queen Elizabeth II, was even more bloody. I invite other readers to do a little more research on the topic. Try it. It's an eye-opener. In the meantime "The First Queen of England" is a marvelous read. Five stars!