THE LIFE OF QUEEN MARY I took a DRAMATIC TURN in 1536. After the death of Catherine of Aragon and witnessing the fall of Anne Boleyn, Mary found herself with a new, sympathetic step-mother, Queen Jane Seymour and a path back to favour with her father, King Henry VIII, after years of emotional abuse at his hands. It came at a steep personal price however, as Mary was forced to acknowledge the illegality of her parents’ marriage. In this week’s Mary I documentary from History Calling (the eighth in my Tudor Monarchs’ Series), we look at her life during the remainder of the reign of Henry VIII, as well as the reign of Edward VI, her half-brother, whose birth in 1537 seemed to spell the end of her road to the throne and might lead you to wonder, how did Mary I become queen with so many obstacles in her way and was she in fact the greatest Tudor survivor for making it through the reigns of her father and brother? The video will include her relationships with her step-mothers Queen Katherine Howard and Queen Catherine Parr and will continue the story of the fraught relationships between Henry VIII and Mary Tudor. We’ll also hear how this one time Princess of England dealt lost her beloved governess, Margaret Pole, countess of Salisbury and the continuing relationship between Mary I and her Spanish family, including the events which led her to consider fleeing England to join them on the continent after King Edward VI and his sister fell out over her continuing Catholicism. Other topics which will be explored will include (unsurprisingly) Mary I and religion and above all, how the twists and turns in the story of the Tudors ultimately brought the first Queen of England to the throne and the one who would become infamous as Bloody Mary.
Nota Bene ~ "Bloody Mary" is a lie. For the truth, read Bad Queen Bess.
As you can see, Queen Mary killed just over 6% of the total her brother managed and not quite 3% of her father's total. In other words, the Catholic Queen was by far and away more merciful than her bloodthirsty protestant father and brother.
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