# Mary I (Penguin Monarchs)

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- Authors: [John Edwards](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-edwards)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2016-10-27

## Description

The elder daughter of Henry VIII, 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?

## Editions

### Mary I (Penguin Monarchs)

- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-02-4118-411-0
- Published: 2016-10-27
- Language: en_GB