THE present day method of writing history, based as it is upon a ... It is as much a historical absurdity to apply to Mary Tudor the name of Bloody Mary," with all the odium that the name implies ...

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.