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The elder daughter of Henry VIII- Mary I (1553-58) became Englands ruler on the unexpected death of her brother Edward VI. Her short reign is one of the great potential turning points in the countrys history. As a convinced Catholic and the wife of Philip II- king of Spain and the most powerful of all European monarchs- Mary could have completely changed her countrys orbit- making it a province of the Habsburg Empire and obedient again to Rome. These extraordinary possibilities are fully dramatized in John Edwards superb short biography. The real Mary I has almost disappeared under the great mass of Protestant propaganda that buried her reputation during her younger sister- Elizabeth Is reign. But what if she had succeeded?...