Mary Tudor was born unwanted — the daughter of a king who divorced, beheaded, and discarded six queens in search of a male heir. She overcame betrayal and murder to become England's first queen regnant, ruling without a husband and answering to no one. But the scars of her childhood never left her, and the tyranny of her reign matched her father's. Her desperate longing for an heir produced two phantom pregnancies and no child. Her campaign to purify England's religion ended with hundreds dead by her command. That bloodshed gave her a name that has lasted forever. They called her Bloody Mary.