Mary%20Tudor

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Mary Tudor

• Later to be known as Bloody Mary.

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The young Mary.

• Mary was Henry VIIIs first child.
• She was a pretty girl who was good at languages,
  science and music.
• She was a good dancer and good at sewing too.
• After his divorce from Catherine, Henry refused
  to let Mary stay with her mother.
• She was kept apart from her mother for much of
  the time and rarely saw her father.

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• At 17 she had to become lady in waiting to
  Princess Elizabeth and she was not allowed to see
  her mother again.
• She only came back to court when Jane Seymour
  persuaded Henry to allow it.

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• Mary had not been a very well child and this was
  to be a problem later in her life.
• She became Queen at 37 and was determined to
  return England to the one true faithRoman
  Catholic.

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Mary marries Philip of Spain

• Mary was pleased to marry Philip. He was handsome
  and a very powerful ROMAN CATHOLIC!
• Philip was less pleased to marry Mary!
• She was older than he had been led to believe,
  dressed badly and had no eyebrows!

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Married life

• Mary loved her new husband. The English people
  did not.
• Why do you think this was?
• Mary rose every day at dawn and worked until
  midnight. She only saw her husband at meal times
  and in the evenings when she played the lute for
  him.
• Soon Mary believed she was carrying the baby that
  would ensure her half sister Elizabeth would not
  inherit the throne.
• Mary was wrong!

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Married life

• In fact this happened twice to Mary. She thought
  she was pregnant because she wanted it so badly.
  Doctors now believe that she had stomach cancer
  and this was what made her stomach swell up.
• Philip left Mary for good this time to fight a
  war in France. He did not return.
• He was cross that Mary had never made him King.
• He felt humiliated that she had never had his son
  and heir.

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Marys rule.

• Mary was determined to return all her people to
  the true faith.
• She believed she was saving their souls by
  insisting on this.
• When they refused to change their ways she had
  them burnt at the stake.

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Bloody Mary

• It was these burnings at the stake which gave
  Mary the name by which she is still known today.
• More than 300 people were burned at the stake
  during her reign for refusing to become Roman
  Catholic..heresy.

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The End

• In April 1558, when Mary was 42, she became quite
  ill after realizing that she was not pregnant,
  for the second time.
• She died in November without a child to succeed
  her.
• Elizabeth, her half sister, and child of the
  woman who had replaced her mother in their
  fathers affections, now became the last Tudor
  monarch.