• Bloody Mary
    Bloody Mary, we all know her as the bloody ghost who appears in the mirror as told in the urban legends. But what we don’t catch is that Mary was queen of England and Ireland, she received the name “Bloody Mary” by having over 200 religious dissenters burned at stake, restoring Roman Catholicism to Europe. She also had other siblings along that she helped along with her rule such as Edward VI and Elizabeth I. In the following paragraphs I will relay information on regards of Mary’s life and rule.

    Being the only child of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon her mother had miscarriages, also 4 other children. Mary was baptized, she was a sick child with bad eyesight even though of her problems she was a precious child, her early education most likely came from her mother. She had her own court at the Ludlow castle and many royal Prerogatives giving her a name of princess of Wales. In 1526, she was sent to Wales with the negation with the Council of Wales and Marches.

    With her consent of marriages, her father contracted for the wed of Mary to the dauphin Francis when she was two years old, three years later the contract was banished. After the failed attempts of marriage, her father’s chief advisor managed to secure an alliance without the marriage. Her father began to fall into jeopardy over the fact that his wife Catherine failed to produce a male child. As Henry began to cause an uproar on the debate of divorce, soon Mary over threw her mother and her nephew, later on Henry secretly married to Anne Boleyn to be beheaded in the future, note, Mary’s father remarried many times without consent of the priest or churches saying.

    She was godmother of Henry’s children throughout her life, receiving a household to live in from him in return, the buildings were known as the Hatfield house, Palace of Beaulieu, Richmond and Hunsdon. After Henry’s sixth and last marriage the family was drawn closer together causing the Third Succession Act. !547, Henry dies, letting little prince Edward rule as a child’s act and often Edward was sick and ill so a council made the decisions on what should happen under his rule. The council was made up of Protestants who had established their faith among the country. Remember Mary was ruling two countries and attended reunions time to time and ended up crying of embarrassment over her half-brother. One of the reasons why people often report seeing her crying when you say her name in front of a mirror. This concludes my passage of the medieval Bloody Mary.

    In memory of Mary I 1516-1558