02712cam a2200289 4500 1336361014 TxAuBib 20240618120000.0 240524s2024||||||||||||d|||||||||||eng|u 2024937474 9781420513554 hardcover alk. paper 1420513559 hardcover alk. paper TxAuBib Weir, Alison. The passionate tudor [Large Type Book] : a novel of Queen Mary I / Alison Weir. Large print ed. [Farmington Hills, Mich] : Thorndike Press/Gale, 2024. 837 p. (large print) ; 23 cm. Thorndike Press large print historical fiction. "Originally published in hardcover in the United Kingdom as Mary I: Queen of Sorrows by Headline Review, an imprint of Headline Publishing Group, a Hachette Company, London.". "Born from young King Henry's first marriage, his elder daughter, Princess Mary, is raised to be queen once it becomes clear that her mother, Katherine of Aragon, will bear no more children. However, Henry's passion for Anne Boleyn has a devastating influence on the young princess's future when, determined to sire a male heir, he marries Anne, has his marriage to Katherine declared unlawful, brands Mary illegitimate, and banishes them both from the royal court. But when Anne too fails to produce a son, she is beheaded and Mary is allowed to return to court as the default heir. At age twenty, she waits in vain for her own marriage and children, but who will marry her, bastard that she is? Yet Mary eventually triumphs and becomes queen, after first deposing a seventeen-year-old usurper, Lady Jane Grey, and ordering her beheading. Any hopes that Mary, as the first female queen regent of England, will show religious toleration are dashed when she embarks on a ruthless campaign to force Catholicism on the English by burning hundreds of Protestants at the stake. But while her brutality will forever earn her the name Bloody Mary, at heart she is an insecure and vulnerable woman, her character forged by the unhappiness of her early years. In Alison Weir's masterful novel, the drama of Mary I's life and five-year reign--from her abusive childhood, marriage, and mysterious pregnancies to the cruelty that marks her legacy--comes to vivid life"--Provided by the publisher. 20240618. Mary Queen, consort of Louis XII, King of France 1496-1533 Fiction. Historical fiction. Thorndike Press large print historical fiction. RV8