Father and Daughter
Lady Jane Grey ; 77-85
2009-09-18
9 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
love of dancing notwithstanding, dominant theme of Mary's training was in the service of God , thought to have ‘beauty exceeding mediocrity’ , Mary Tudor, Mary's birth at Greenwich, 1516 ‐ not greeted with unmixed joy , Mary's manner, that of a saint and something of a martyr , Katherine of Aragon, bringing up Mary in fervent Catholicism ‐ imbibed in Spain from her mother Isabella , one of history's ironies ‐ that such a woman should have earned the name ‘Bloody Mary’ , bitterly unpopular marriage ‐ dragging England into a disastrous foreign war , her five‐year reign ‐ arguably the most inglorious in English history , Mary, richness of late medieval Catholicism , absence of popular mourning ‐ at her death in November 1558
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