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 ...