Asking how the name of the Bloody Mary originated is a bit like asking Hugh Hefner the name of his girlfriend. There's not one - there are plenty. The most popular story is that Petiot named it after Queen Mary Tudor of England. She had taken the throne after a short battle against ...
(2) However, It was very important to Henry that his wife should give birth to a male child. Without a son to take over from him when he died, Henry feared that the Tudor family would lose control of England. While Mary was not the desired male heir, she was still a valuable asset...
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Related to Mary, Queen of Scots:Mary of Guise,Catherine de Medici n (Biography) family nameStuart.1542–87, queen of Scotland (1542–67); daughter of James V of Scotland and Mary of Guise. She was married to Francis II of France (1558–60), her cousin Lord Darnley (1565–67), and...
In 1565 Mary gave into infatuation and married her cousin, Henry Stewart, Earl of Darnley. Mary's new husband was a grandson of Margaret Tudor; Mary uniting with a Tudor infuriated Elizabeth Tudor. Her marriage to Darnley also turned Mary's half-brother against her. Shortly after their marr...
s ambitions; she was a woman whose life was more complex than we give her credit for. By peeling back these layers of myth, we can better understand her true role in Tudor history as a member of the Boleyn family, king’s mistress, and the mother of two loyal servants to Elizabeth I...
Because of the shoddy record-keeping in the Tudor era, historians cannot pinpoint Mary’s exact date of birth or even her place in the birth order among the three Boleyn siblings. Most agree, however, that she was born around 1499 or 1500 at the Boleyn family home, Blickling Hall in Nor...
The Twisted Tale of Bloody Mary: Directed by Chris Barnard. With Miranda French, Simon Kirk, Jorge Balça, Jason Sharp. She was loved, she was a princess, heir to the throne - but the childhood fairytale turned to lifelong nightmare for Mary Tudor, Hen
For me, it is because she is yet another important Tudor woman whose life story should be better known. The fact we know so little about her – even the year of her birth is a mystery —intrigued me. Catherine was the daughter of Mary Boleyn, the sister of Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII’...
Bishop John White of Winchester spoke, ‘She was a King’s daughter, she was a King’s sister, she was a King’s wife; she was a Queen, and by the same title a King also…’1 In 1603 Elizabeth died, and her coffin was placed above Mary’s in the same vault. Her successor, Ja...