Mary Tudor was never meant to live quietly. With fiery red hair and a will every bit as fierce as her brother Henry VIII, she grew up knowing that her life belonged to politics, not romance. When she was married off to the aging Louis XII, it was duty—nothing more. And when he died just weeks later, Mary suddenly found herself young, wealthy, and—for the first time—free. Or so it seemed. Henry VIII demanded she return to England unmarried. To enforce it, he sent the one man he trusted most: Charles Brandon, his closest friend and one of the most admired men at court. Brandon was meant to escort her…