Centuries later, however, the Tudor queen is remembered as one of the most reviled figures in English history: “Bloody Mary.” This is the story of how a heroic underdog became a monarch who ...

Mary Tudor has gone down in history as the Catholic tyrant "Bloody Mary." There’s certainly cause for such a brutal nickname: she executed hundreds of Protestants during her short reign.

Foxe's graphic imagery and unflinching, one-sided stories of what he called the bloody time of Queen Mary now came to be seen as the gospel truth, the definitive history of the period. I wouldn't ...

And let's address the royal elephant in the room. Only one other female figure in history has been called Bloody Mary, Mary Tudor or Queen Mary I. Born to Katherine of Aragon and King Henry VIII ...