Bloody Mary is the title of Gary Stevens' free downloadable board game
"Good King Hal is dead. The realm looks to his nine-year old son, Edward–sixth of that name. Already it is clear that he is his father's boy; with the incandescent Tudor intelligence, the earthy Tudor instinct for survival, and the Tudor steely resolve. His sisters Mary and Elizabeth will soon be married off of course–footnotes to history. Edward will live long, and complete the Protestant reforms his own late mother – Jane Seymour – had dreamt of; all under the tutelage of his uncles: Edward Seymour, newly created Lord Protector and Duke of Somerset; and Thomas Seymour, whom some think plots to have the throne for himself.
Good Hal had begun the journey, but only haltingly. Henry vacillated. Edward and his uncles see a clearer path. England shall be a Godly Realm, a Protestant Realm. Nor shall it be a tyranny. No: in his last years Henry had become a capricious and turbulent monarch. This is a new time: Edward and the Seymours shall make a kingdom where all subjects may voice their grievances. This shall be the Golden Age of Good King Edward, and the Golden Age of England.
But do the Fates have other things in mind? What if Edward should die before his time? His eldest sister, the obvious heir to the throne, is as Catholic as her mother, Catherine of Aragon. Surely England could not return to Rome? Unthinkable!
Perhaps Edward should secure his Godly Realm through a Protestant succession, perhaps to his closest Protestant relatives, the Greys. But is this lawful? What did Henry VIII's will say? And what of the ancient rules of succession… and the claims of his younger Protestant sister, Elizabeth?…"
See here
garrysgames.com/Mary.html
Amicalement
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