Is anyone in English history more unfairly treated than Mary Tudor, the first queen regnant of this country and a villainous figure unparalleled among our monarchs?
Visitors from the 1550s would be baffled by the way Henry VIII’s eldest child is portrayed, and would certainly not recognise the bloodthirsty, religious maniac of Whig demonology, who has now been turned into a child-scaring zombie. As the Herald reports:
A digital poster for the London Dungeon featuring the sudden transformation of Queen Mary I into a zombie-like character was banned by the Advertising Standards Authority for scaring children.The advert, which ran on digital screens on London Underground stations, featured an image of the 16th century queen sitting on a chair and then morphing into a monster with sunken eyes, pale skin, a wide-open mouth and a scarred face.
A spokesman for Merlin Entertainments, said the advert was supposed to show the "dark side of personality and portray her as a villain".
