Mary I is one of the more interesting of Great Britain's monarchs.  She might have made a good Queen had she not been so influenced by Philip II.  Her mother was certainly respectable enough.

I feel quite sorry for her. Her husband only married her to gain England's wealth in his war with France and she had several phantom pregnancies and even after ten months or more had passed, she still clung to the belief that the baby would come soon.   

I've always felt sorry for her too, Mark.  Philip didn't love her and I'm sure she knew it.  She probably felt like a complete failure, being catholic, for not producing a lot of  babies.  Her mother surely carried a hatred for non-catholics after what happened to her.  She probably carried a fear that Mary would be excluded from her rightful place, if not actually executed.  Henry denied her legitimacy, so that no doubt caused her some head problems.  An unfortunate girl to be sure, and very unfortunate for those who became her subjects.

I think you are all forgetting why she was called Bloody Mary. She was a typical example of what will occur if a Catholic is ever allowed to rule in the UK again.

 

She murdered 300 Prods. The only thing in her favour was she did wonders for Vodka and Tomato juice shares

only 300!  Failure.

#6 ONE Proddy's bad enough

 

Why didn't she practice on the Catholics? After all her husband's fleet repopulated all of Southern Ireland with strange Arab-Spanish mixtures.

#7 Pimp my Magna my man!