1. Introduction: "In the worde of a prince" - Jessica S. Hower and Valerie Schutte .- 2. "By your loving mother": Lessons in Queenship from Catherine of Aragon to her Daughter, Mary - Theresa Earenfight .- 3. Negotiating Queenship: Ritual Practice, Material Evidence, and Mary I's Narrative of Authority - Michaela Baca .- 4. "More to be feared than fearful herself": Contrasting Representations of Mary I in Sixteenth-Century Chronicles and First-Hand Accounts - Courtney Herber.- 5. "Marie our Maistresse": The Queen at Her Accession - Valerie Schutte .- 6. What Mary Did First: Re-assessing the Biblical Analogies of England's First Female King - Aidan Norrie .- 7. "Horrible and Bloudye" or "Most Serene and Potent": Mary I and Empire - Jessica S. Hower.- 8. Mary's Participation in the Ritual of the New Year's Gift Exchange as Princess and Queen - Jane Lawson .- 9. Accounting Legitimacy in Purple & Gold: Mary Tudor, Household Accounts, and the English Succession - Elizabeth McMahon .- 10. - Happily Ever After?: Posthumous Representations of Mary I and Philip II's Marriage - Johanna Strong .- 11. "She...yielding a mild and gracious spirit into the hands of her Maker": Three Catholic Accounts of the Death of Mary I - Carolyn Colbert .- 12. Mary I During the Popish Plot and Exclusion Crisis: Memory and Catholic Remembrance - Eilish Gregory.