In this section you will find articles about Mary Tudor (18 February 1516 – 17 November 1558), daughter of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon and Queen of England and Ireland from July 1553 until her death.
Portrait miniature of Mary Tudor, later Mary I of England
“These bloody days have broken my heart.
My lust, my youth did them depart,
And blind desire of estate.
Who hastes to climb seeks to revert.
Of truth, circa Regna tonat (thunder rolls around the throne).” by Thomas Wyatt May 1536. An excerpt of a poem written by him after watching the executions of his friends from the Tower of London's Bell Tower. Starkey, David (ed). Rivals in Power: Lives and letters of the great Tudor dynasties, 1990.