Queen of Martyrs

Book Review: Queen of Martyrs by Samantha Wilcoxson

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Author Samantha Wilcoxson recently released the third and final installment of her Plantagenet Embers series with "Queen of Martyrs - The Story of Mary I" and it is a marvelous representation of the lady that will go down in history (whether unfairly) as "Bloody Mary".   Here is a brief synopsis of the book from its Amazon page: God save the Queen! God save our good Queen Mary!' When these words rang out over England, Mary Tudor thought her troubles were over. She [More]

Mary and Reginald: What could have been?

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Guest post by Samantha Wilcoxson for Tudors Dynasty Queen Mary I has gone down in history as ‘Bloody Mary’ thanks to her persecution of Protestants and rebellions against her choice of husband. We may think that marrying the man of her choice is the lesser crime through our modern worldview, but sixteenth century Englishmen were far more concerned about having a Spanish ruler than returning to Catholicism. What if Mary had made a different choice? When Mary beca [More]