Completed Anna Whitelock's Mary Tudor: Princess, Bastard, Queen, c. 2010.
Very, very detailed look at her life; probably the definitive study of Mary for the casual reader of English history. Anyone wanting more is probably working on a doctoral dissertation.
Unlike her predecessors who preferred the block and beheading, Mary preferred burning "at the stake," which no doubt influenced those who did the same 150 years later in Salem, Massachusetts.
Forgotten in all this is the fact that Mary was the first queen of England, having won it on her own.
She died at the age of 42, of natural causes, after five years on the throne. She had no children and her half-sister assumed the throne without much difficulty or controversy.
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