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Phil Carradice

Bloody Mary

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When Mary Tudor, eldest daughter of Henry VIII, succeeded to the throne of England in 1553 it was with wild rejoicing and a degree of popularity rarely seen on the accession of a British monarch. Yet at her death five years later she was almost universally reviled and hated by her people so much so that she was posthumously awarded the sobriquet Bloody Mary.Marys revenge on the church and on a religion she hated was swift and total. Noblemen like the Duke of Northumberland, would-be queens like Lady Jane Grey, churchmen like Thomas Cranmer and bishops Latimer and Ridley, Marys fires or the executioners axe ended the lives of all of them.During her brief reign she restored the Catholic faith to England and had over 280 Protestant martyrs burned at the stake. For a reign that looked so promising Marys brief period in power brought the greatest officially sanctioned religious bloodletting the country had ever seen. And at the end, the stench of the execution fires and the grey smoke that settled like a pall across the country seemed to epitomize the reactionary forces that had assumed control.
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2018
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  • Lisa Eliassaintцитирует2 года назад
    The terrible change in character of Mary Tudor, from a mischievous, high-spirited young girl to a thoughtful and repressed teenager to a murderous, cold-hearted tyrant is a study in how one individual and the events of that life can have such a profound effect on a whole nation.
  • Lisa Eliassaintцитирует2 года назад
    She restored the Navy, renewed the coinage and increased crown revenue. She also established new hospitals, improved the education of the clergy and increased the authority of local government.’5 The most important of these was the changes she made to the revenue of the country
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    she was suffering from ovarian or cervical cancer

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