Mary Tudor, the three-year-old filly from Dawn Approach held well on a step up in trip in the one-mile-and-four-furlong contest, coming in 1 1/2 lengths behind Epsom Oaks winner Forever Together, trained by Aidan O'Brien and the ride of Donnacha O'Brien.
FLAVOUR OF THE MONTH Bag some more crisp currency with
Mary Tudor at Leopardstown
Knox, considering himself a prophet of God on earth, vindicated Protestantism as the true expression of religion, against Catholicism and the Pope's idolatry, which had been reintroduced in England by
Mary Tudor. However, his attack is not just against Catholicism, but against women's rule in general.
(7.) Taken from Mary's New Year's gift roll of 1557, as reprinted in David Loades,
Mary Tudor: A Life (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1989; rev.
FIRES OF FAITH: CATHOLIC ENGLAND UNDER
MARY TUDOR. By Eamon Duffy.
Forced to marry a man she loathes and then to accept the crown, Jane's fate is sealed as
Mary Tudor's forces gather strength.
Like "Elizabeth's Women," "
Mary Tudor" doesn't break a lot of new ground, but for those interested in the period, it's a solid addition to the growing body of revisionist writings about the period.
Scholastic's A Wicked History includes such subjects such as Torquemada, Vlad the Impaler, Julius Caesar,
Mary Tudor, and other figures with notorious pasts and illustrious impacts on history.
Loades, eds., The Church of
Mary Tudor [Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006]), one which, from a variety of different perspectives, set out an alternative structure for thinking about the period.
Anna Whitelock is the author of
Mary Tudor: England's First Queen (Bloomsbury, 2009).
Mary, who shortly before her 17th birthday became Queen of France, was tall, beautiful, wealthy, and charming, and was initially perceived to be a gifted monarch; whereas Elizabeth, who on the death of her sister
Mary Tudor (the infamous "Bloody Mary"), ascended to the English throne, was thought to be a capricious young woman, who had just come to the throne of a nearly destitute country riven by religious conflict and surrounded by enemies on all sides.