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Henry was such a mean horrible tyrant, he completely destroyed poor Queen Mary. What kind of father keeps his child from seeing their mother. Mary’s mind was warped with hate for her father and blindly blamed the Protestants for the breakup of her parents.
@@amazonglamazon6633 I’m not sure how much of his giant man-baby ego can be attributed to his head injury… I have a feeling he’d have been the selfish jerk that he was even without it!
Mary didn't hate her father, because her mind was warped. It was, because of the horrible way he mistreated her and her mother. It was Henry as a Protestant that annulled a valid marriage and consequently relegated Catherine to the status of a "whore" and Mary to a "bastard".
Well he doesn't sound like that much of a tyrant if you word it that way lmao. I know parents today who do this stuff. Maybe the beheadings and such made him more of a tyrant?
She was a King's daughter, She was a King's sister, She was a King's wife, She would be a King's mother(Queen Mother) if she successfully be pregnant with a male heir, but she had endometriosis, phantom pregnancies which leads to cancer. There were no IVFs in those days.
She was not an unattractive woman. People have been cruel to Mary Tudor because her enemies took over after she died. Among other things, I've seen descriptions of her written by protestants who were not fond of her describing her as ugly, while the [in my opinion] not at all attractive Elizabeth I was described as beautiful.
@@andii- exactly imagine us putting on white Zink, poisoning paste and wearing huge wigs plus the Tudors loved sweets and sugar, possibly the worst time for teeth. I read a testimony that Elisabeth had near the end of her life only a few horrible brown teeth left and put minz coated cotton balls under her cheeks in order to maintain the cheekbones/ facial structures and have a fresh breath
@@charlie1567 Yes, Elizabeth was not attractive. She wanted to look like a statue so she painted herself with white paint. But even without that, she was not a pretty woman. There are paintings of her while she was still young and she wasn't pretty.
Considering how much Henry and Catherine loved Mary in her early childhood, imagine how happy they could’ve all been if Henry gave up on looking for a male heir.
@@Alan-gh8X True. But without the trauma and what happened with her father threatening her life and bastardizing her while she watched so many people she loved die or suffer execution, even if England didn't become protestant, Mary might have had the chance to be a good queen, like her mother who the country loved. In a way, I feel sorry for her. There is no excuse for burning multiple protestants at the stake. I think of the lives that could have been saved, even at the cost of England remaining Catholic. Henry VIII killed 57,000 people during this tumultuous time. If he settled Mary as the heir and matched her with a good husband, all the deaths may have been prevented.
In those years, it was considered old. Plus, her health wasn't already in good shape by the time of her death, as you pointed out. Mary wasn't in good health ever since her relationship with her father went downhill.
She aged badly due to the fact all the stress she was thrown under through her health issues, the false pregnancies, not having her love and affection returned from her husband Philip.
@@brooke6549 I mean probably, but the main thing *was* cancer that made her appear old. That's what cancer does. That's why survivors look older than they are.
Wow, never thought she was even close to pretty with all of those awful portraits! Bringing her to life brought definite beauty I never thought to exist. Well done! Love the brief history, too!
Thank you I enjoyed it very much. I use to think of “Bloody Mary” as such a horrible person. She was not worse than the rest. I feel for her & how atrocious she was dealt with by her own father which led to her physical and emotional pain.
she was a horrible person...but I understand where it came from , she just lived out her rage on wrong people... soomany innocent protestant martyrrs died in horrible way in the hands of Mary, burning alive is one of the worst ways to die also Mary was deeply brainwashed by catholic faith in my opinion what happened was necessary, if catholics would have stayed on power then people would have never got the chance to read the bible and think by themselves also Mary gets away with a lot ... people always talk about how rude Anne was to Mary but nobody ever talks how rude Mary was to Anne as well, calling her a "kings wh*re " in the front of everybody in the court even when Anne tried to be nice with her , I feel like people are turning a blind eye to many of the things she did because they feel bad for the things she had to go trough
@@HK-gm8pe The King James Bible was preceded by and largely based on the Douay-Rheims English translation of the Bible, which was made by English Catholics in exile. And Queen Elizabeth I had plenty of English Catholics tortured to death.
There was a great variance in Mary's appearance, looking at her portraiture. In some portraits she looks exquisitely beautiful and in others she appears downright demonic. Hard to say which ones are more believable, LOL.
i'm pretty sure the ones that look demonic are the more believable ones bc i highly doubt she'd have allowed it to be painted if it wasn't at least a semi flattering likeness. my guess is even the ugly portraits flatter her and i've always supposed that bc she was a princess everyone flattered her looks i mean could you imagine hviii if you said his daughter was at best moderately beautiful
Yeah. The artists that painted her are incoherent in her looks. But hopefully by looking at all her portraits we can gather a sense of what she might have looked like.
@@cplmpcocptcl6306 Well, Elizabeth isn't the focus of this video, but since you raised the topic, I always thought she looked good in the Rainbow portrait.
Mary's reputation was created by Protestant historians, which began in Elizabeth's Reign. She was no more bloody than Elizabeth. Winners write history'
Maybe, but Mary’s bloodiness made her one of the most hated monarchs in English history. So much so the day of her death became a public holiday. That hatred still has ramifications today.
Queen Mary was treated horrible by her father for a very long time. Depression and stress can cause health issues. Queen Elizabeth I was just was just as brutal to the Catholics. No one ever speaks about it.
It's because English history was written from a Protestant point of view after Queen Elizabeth's reign. They tarnished Mary's reign and gave her nicknames like Bloody Mary. Even though her sister and father killed more people than her.
@@BiG-JuPO1O1 Exactly! You just need to search the English inquistion to notice that english history only counts the existence of the inquistion during Catholic periods, similar or equivalent institutions during the Protestant periods are not aknowledged as inquisitory at all
She was also treated just as badly by Henry as Mary was. Her household had to send message to him asking for clothes for Elizabeth. He treated them both like crap.
@@MrFrinZy It's because Mary is called bloody Mary all because she killed Protestants, that number is about 300 within her 4-year reign. Which is less than Elizabeth and Henry who killed more.
th-cam.com/video/D-ib-hqYjXM/w-d-xo.html The lady in this documentary looks pretty close to her. I also hate it when they make her fat and have black hair
Also,Henry also considered marrying Mary to her own half brother Fritroy with the backing of the Catholic Church before Edward was born, because Anne failed to produce an heir
I wouldn't say bitterness. Being depressed, stressed, had health issues since she was a teen. Henry and Anne abused her and kept her away from her mother. Henry refused to give Mary a chance to see her mother before she died. Catherine was most likely heartbroken after what Henry did. Add that with Mary's illness, she had a rough life.
@@harrietharlow9929 she looked mean when she took the throne and she looked older than 42 (I'm 42 & I don't look nearly as old as Mary looked at that age)...
I pity her, she was a lovely , very intelligent child that went from having the love of both parents to losing her mother because of a mistress her father wanted, losing her reputation as a royal princess and becoming a bastard. To live under constant threats from her father because she would not relinquish her faith, to be executed as a traitor( there was issued a warrant for her to be arrested , tried and executed waiting for the King's signature) The only thing that kept this warrant from being signed is that his right hand realized that if Henry killed Mary, there would be a revolt by the people. They loved Catherine, regarded her as the true wife and Queen and Mary as the Princess Royal. He warned him that this act could destroy England into not only a civil war, but between two religions into a fire that may not be extinquished. Henry was tired of Mary's resistance and wanted this problem out of his life, there were those hinting that Mary should be made an example of before the people. Cromwell knew that this was the worst mistake Henry could make, lucky or unlucky Mary lived, exiled from court to a lonely life than made an maid to her newborn half-sister where she was bullied by servants and Anne made her life as miserable as she could. Mary had no one but the Spanish ambassador to give her loving attention, direction and understood the pressures that she endured. It is no wonder her faith was so important, could anyone of us kept our mental state from deteriorating to such a state under such threats, pressures and constant bullies who were so cruel? Her health problems , I believe were caused by this and her slow but steady decent into paranoia and the almost martyr complex she developed. She could not protect herself from either her father, or Ann, but her hatred could be taken out on the only person she could and that was her sister. It is very likely, a warrant for Elizabeth's death was waiting to be signed when Mary could get enough evidence to rid herself of the reason for her mother's fall from grace. By this time, Mary could not see that a baby was innocent of it's parent's crimes. Not able to vent her anger on her father who she both loved and feared, on the Woman who took her mother's place and bullied her, .... it's the old Dad hits Mom, Mom hits child, child kicks the dog. All this destroyed her health, her mind and beauty as portraits show. Philip of Spain was rather shocked that Mary looked nothing like her portrait he was shown. He did not find her attractive but old and worn looking and what he must have said in private ..... I feel, Mary was quite insane at the end of this, and it is so very sad how her life was destroyed and her reputation muddied . Yes, she had innocent people killed, but so did every King before her and after her- with much higher numbers. They can all be called Bloody including Elizabeth who though having natural intelligence, beauty and an very early understanding of the power games surrounding her, also inherited so not so good character traits from both her parents which became very evident during her reign. Yes, she was smart, acute and determined to be her own person, but also could be vindictive, jealous of other women's beauty, wanting to be sexualized as the most alluring woman who loved to flirt yet keep at a distance handsome men who were to idolize her only, when they married -- all Hell broke loose and some lost their heads because of it, making untruth as truth is what Monarchs did if they got pissed off. She refused to sleep and have sex with them, but they were to be always sexually attracted and available to extol her beauty and never marry for this was a betrayal of her. Sounds very much like Henry thinking he was so attractive even when he was fat and had oozing sore that stank. She lost her beauty and grew old as is normal, but for Elizabeth this was life betraying her and she would not have it, she still required handsome men to tell her of her beauty and woe betide the beu who could not carry off this lie off. Like her mother, she craved power and welded it with spite at times. Her temper could explode without warning and her ministers must have had fun trying to deal with Elizabeth as they did with Henry, never quite sure what reactions they would get. Like all of us, none are perfect angels nor absolute devils , but absolute power has a way of bringing out the worst in many of us -- some more than others. We need to remember that written history is often not completly honest, sometimes very inaccurate, and deliberate lies are told about situations, and people. That has not changed even in our timeline.
You captured this beautifully. No one seems to understand the devastation and complete social trauma of the break with Rome and the Dissolution of the churches and monasteries. The social fabric and actual building landscape of 900 years ripped apart from rich to poor. Mary was front and center to all of this. Her father and Elizabeth had hundreds executed between them, wording changed the execution warrants for treason, yet because of the success of the next reign and religion, she still carries that epitaph - but definitely not saying Cranmer deserved that martyrs death, none of them did. Does anyone know if anyone on her counsel argued against the burnings? But to argue with the monarch could be treason - no one wins. What raw and terrible times.
I'm not going to read all of this, but I was struck by an inaccuracy in the first line of what you wrote. And I'll try to keep this short. Mary did not lose her mother "because of a mistress her father wanted." She lost her mother because she didn't have a living full brother. She lost her mother because her father wanted a legitimate son.
Both Queen Katherine and Queen Mary I of England are tragic figures. Especially Henry prohibiting the Queen Katherine and the then Princess Mary from seeing each other, saying farewell on Katherine’s deathbed, is the most cruel act towards these Queens.
I love everything Tudor. I would enjoy seeing Mary Tudor ("The French Queen" / Henry VIII's younger sister & the "beauty" of the family) and Charles Brandon (Henry VIII's bestie) along with their granddaughters, Lady Jane Grey (9 days queen), Catherine Grey (another "beauty" who got in trouble for marrying Ned Seymour without Elizabeth I's permission - great story there) and Mary Grey (the shortest lady at court who married the biggest man at court - and also got in trouble, since the Grey sisters were rivals for Elizabeth's throne). Would also love to see Margaret Tudor (Henry VIII's older sister & queen consort of Scotland). And Thomas Cromwell and Cardinal Wolsey for good measure! Basically all the Who's Who of the Tudor Era! 🤣 Your videos are so fun to watch.
She couldn’t have been that horrible. She was beautiful child, and I’m sure she wouldn’t have been how she was without the lovely way her father treated her. It’s not many fathers out there who constantly threaten to cut your head off. And could do it legally. Elizabeth was a mess too. They both could barely eat, and had “episodes”.
I LOVE your videos! You present an enjoyable video of history along with how royals may have looked. Portraits are so stern, your work humanizes the historical figures and make them more relatable.
Mary has one of the most tragic stories from beginning to end in all of English royal history. And while she was definitely a victim of her times, she was strong, intelligent, fiercely kind and generous to a fault...like her mother before her. It's important to note that, at the end of her life she DID have a choice. She chose to uphold her father's line of succession and pass the crown to Elizabeth rather than have her executed. I know she didn't like it, but she also went waaaay out of her way to avoid having to execute Jane Grey. Both of these say a lot about who Mary actually was.
@@melissasecrest8223 Jane was executed a while after she was overthrown. Mary acknowledged that she was a child and probably a pawn of her father so had her kept out of the public with the understanding that she'd be kept out of the way for a while then let out to live quietly, but Jane would write letters to nobles reminding them that she was queen and her father started a rebellion in her name, so in the end, Mary was left in an impossible position, particularly as Spain would not approve her marriage to Phillip if there was any threat to her throne.
I also thought she was disgusting and evil, but then I learned more about her and her bad life and today I love her very much because she was not a horrible person, but she was the total opposite, and we have no reason to hate her when other rulers are also had death sentences and killed masses of people. She wasn't the worst of them, she was more of a victim than a villain to be honest.
Much appreciated your Empress Elisabeth Video! You could do another one, this time with colored and animated photos of her, telling some trivial anecdotes of her life. Thank u!
Your work is remarkable. I know it’s just an artist interpretation but still historical figures coming to life is astonishing. By all accounts Mary was loving sister to baby Elizabeth and enjoyed attending her
King Henry called Mary "The pearl of his world" Queen Catherine and her daughter were allowed to see each other breifly just once before Queen Catherine was sent into exile.
Mary had been a graceful child with glorious long red hair, 'as beautiful as ever seen on human head'. In 1531 the Venetian ambassador described her as having a 'pretty face, a very beautiful complexion [and a] well-proportioned physique'. Two years later, another Venetian wrote that she was 'of low stature with a red and white complexion, and very thin'. Her eyes were large and pale, 'so piercing that they inspire not only respect but fear'. However, her alarming stare was the result of her eyesight being so poor 'that to read she must hold the page close to her face'. She had a tightly-buttoned, thin-lipped mouth and a flat, retrousse nose; by the time she entered adulthood she had, like many of her contemporaries, lost most of her teeth.
Even if she was the best looking person in the world it won't make her more likable. Megan markle is beautiful, but shes unpopular and she didnt even burn anyone at a stake. Honestly looks dont matter.
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There's not a single portrait of her where she looks happy. She seems to have been stressed and miserable her entire life. If she'd had a better life, maybe she would have been a different queen.
Wow, I think this is my ancestral line, I look just like her! 😅 Can you PLEASE do Elizabeth Woodville and her daughter Elizabeth of York? I know there is much less portraiture of them but it would be awesome to see them come to life!! Thanks for the awesome work!!
Portraits of royalty would have been flattering; the fact that Mary's still so plain in all of them speaks volumes about how she must have looked in real life.
A couple of others you might like are from the English Civil War. They are King Charles the frist wife Henrietta Maria and Prince Rupert of the Rhine. Just a thought. Wonderful videos!!
She proposed to King Phillip of Spain and as he was greedy to reign over England and keep it catholic, he married her. She hardly ever saw him and seemingly wasn't too keen TO spend time with her. Poor Mary, a terribly fervent catholic.
Mary lost most of her teeth by the time she was an adult, a common thing back then. It is also documented that stress of the treatment she suffered at the hands of her father when her parents split affected her looks and gave her lots of health problems.
@@dendenne4856 they put it down to what they called “strangulation of the womb”, which they believed was caused by lack of husband. It was also the time of the miseries caused by her father’s conduct.
What about the fact females can destroy one type (male or female) of sperm depending on the chemicals in the uterus at the time? Yes the male sperm determines whether it will be a girl, boy & anything in between.
You can be pretty as a child and grow plainer as you grow older. Mary did suffer from neglect from Henry as a distant father and being then made a bastard. Mary as Queen did not execute Elizabeth even though there was much pressure to do so. Philip of Spain was quite a catch but Mary was eager to get pregnant but it was not to be. This must have been so humiliating. After Mary’s death Philip did propose to Elizabeth but she declined can’t fault her on that considering he was behind Protestant persecution.
Your recreations are amazing- keep up the good work. As a history buff, I've always viewed Mary I as a bitter & self-possessed woman- taking out her disappoints on Europe thru religious war & intolerance. I believe Elizabeth I had to walk on eggshells to deal with her before becoming queen herself.
This is mermerizing. You've done a fantastic job. As a simple suggestion: it might be good to add the name of each character displayed, so we know exactly who we're looking at. But this is absolutely amazing.
I am sorry but yes Henry and Elizabeth killed many people but Elizabeth reigned for 45 years and Henry for 36 years, MAry reigned only for 5 years and she burned over 290 people nobody had ever burned soo many people with soo little time
@@heckinbasedandinkpilledoct7459 yes, Mary gets away with a lot ,people sympathize with her because she had sad childhood but Elizabeth had even worse childhood and Mary was still a horrible person in my eyes, burning alive is one of the most painful ways to die, Mary was totally crazy , I dont understand why people defend her recently
You may want to read up more on Henry VIII and his thousands of victims. Please remember that he is the one who started the killings. Being burnt is terrible, but Henry VIII's method was worse. He would have a person hung. While still alive, he would have them disemboweled. Afterwards, they would be lowered and quartered. .People are defending Mary, because of the gross distortion of her through the centuries.
And very tall. She was tall for a man of the era but it ran in her family. A lot of plantagenets & Tudors are described as over 6 ft, but I think Mary may have been the only woman. There's something in the back of my mind saying there's another but I can't think of her.
She was not scary she was and continues to this day to be the greatest Queen in all of England, not one Monarch can compare. She is the greatest Queen that England ever had. #GODSAVEQUEENMARYI
I a,ways felt this specific portrait definitely gave her a classic RBF, despite what appears to be a slight smile/smirk. Renaissance era RBF lol. I like it. Impressive.
Hey what do you think about go far far back, would love to see you bring Nofretete to life since she was the most beautiful woman of her time!! Would love to see that beside she was married to Echnaton who was a not liked Pharaoh since he was obsessed with the sun as God and only wanted him, which was his Downfall... So Nofretete would be awesome!
Sad really. People's teeth were much healthier before sugar was introduced. I'd hate to think of the pain they went through. Better to be poor & live on vegetables.
the stress of not being able to have a male heir, her entire life being changed, and not being allowed to contact her mother. she was probably so stressed that it manifested into the hair loss, tooth loss, etc etc.
I really think it's her eyebrows that throws it off . She proberly looked more serious and stress in her older portraits. But I'm pretty positive she was beautiful. But cancer and youth got the best of her early. Honestly she was proberly better looking that elizabeth
It would be more appropriate to say that Mary is the only child of Henry and Katherine to survive to adulthood. There were 2 male babies who were live born. One lived to around 2 months and one just a few days. There was one female baby who was either stillborn or only lived a few hours, but the sources are unclear. Katherine also suffered several miscarriages, including her first pregnancy. Her physicians convinced her that the miscarried child was one of a twin, and that the twin remained, but this was untrue. Differing sources tell of her number of pregnancies, some where she went into confinement, some where she did not reach her last 60-90 days when confinement would begin. Most count Katherine's number of pregnancies at 6-8. So, to say that Mary was the only child, is untrue, just the only lived child to live past 60 days.
Mary died of a stomach distension, better known as stomach cancer today. But before this Mary had claimed to have been pregnant numerous times by Philip II. But never producing a prince, she went through what was called phantom pregnancy, it's a condition where a woman feels as though she is pregnant, but there's no proof of a baby. Nevertheless, this sent Mary into a deep depression and never emerging from her palace. Philip at this point turned his back on Mary and sailed back to Spain, leaving Mary alone. Shortly after Mary passed away England needed a queen, so one of Mary's councilors removed a ring from her finger and rode out to find Elizabeth, when he found her he told her that her sister had just died and that now she was Queen of England. Elizabeth was anointed and given the scepters of the monarch. Queen Elizabeth I was crowned and ended up governing England for 43 years today her reign is still considered a golden age.
She was actually very kind, her policies are just evidence that she product of her own times. She didn't WANT to burn people, her society taught her that it had to be done. Burning as a judicial punishment for heresy existed long before her reign.
No one can say for sure whether Henry VIII 's syphillis was a factor in failure to conceive. He apparently absolutely stunk with the supporating ulcers on his legs. What a trial for his young wives.. maybe the scaffold was a relief. These english monarchs are a weird bunch, yet people were expected to be 'subjects' to them. Crazy.
I had always heard that Mary Tudor was actually the pretty sister but became aged and careworn before her time while Elizabeth was homely with an overlarge hook nose and carrot orange hair, ( Mary's was a dark, rich red but not auburn.)
No, the instant she send inocent people to torture and horrible deaths she lost any claim of simpathy from most decent human beings, even for her times she was terrible, "Bloody Mary" Indeed.
@@cesaravegah3787 So has Queen Elizabeth and King Henry yet nobody bashes them. The only reason why she called bloody Mary is due to Protestants taking over. All leaders of that time were harsh if you compare them to today's standards.
@@BiG-JuPO1O1 Henry was dispised by millions and Elizabeth only had marginally better rep because she was lucky repelling the invasion, no simpathy for them either, not by me at least.
@@BiG-JuPO1O1 let it go. It's mainly catholic people that keep calling Queen Mary , Bloody Mary. She is dead. It would have been nice if she had married a nice King & she hadn't had health problems, but that isn't what happened.
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Henry was such a mean horrible tyrant, he completely destroyed poor Queen Mary. What kind of father keeps his child from seeing their mother. Mary’s mind was warped with hate for her father and blindly blamed the Protestants for the breakup of her parents.
Henry was a mean and horrible tyrant to Everyone !
Henry suffered from a head injury. He was mentally ill. Certainly doesn’t excuse his behavior however.
@@amazonglamazon6633 I’m not sure how much of his giant man-baby ego can be attributed to his head injury… I have a feeling he’d have been the selfish jerk that he was even without it!
Mary didn't hate her father, because her mind was warped. It was, because of the horrible way he mistreated her and her mother. It was Henry as a Protestant that annulled a valid marriage and consequently relegated Catherine to the status of a "whore" and Mary to a "bastard".
Well he doesn't sound like that much of a tyrant if you word it that way lmao. I know parents today who do this stuff. Maybe the beheadings and such made him more of a tyrant?
She was a King's daughter,
She was a King's sister,
She was a King's wife,
She would be a King's mother(Queen Mother) if she successfully be pregnant with a male heir, but she had endometriosis, phantom pregnancies which leads to cancer.
There were no IVFs in those days.
Also the Granddaughter of a King
I had endometriosis and yet I became pregnant and produced a female child.
@@gloriahanes5338 Congratulations on your baby girl, and well done.🎉🎉🎉👶👶👶🌹❤️
@@gloriahanes5338 You're living in the 21 century. Ailments that today are easy to cure were catastrophic 500 years ago.
On her case maybe it was a good thing that she didnt had a heir.
She was not an unattractive woman. People have been cruel to Mary Tudor because her enemies took over after she died. Among other things, I've seen descriptions of her written by protestants who were not fond of her describing her as ugly, while the [in my opinion] not at all attractive Elizabeth I was described as beautiful.
Exactly
i mean, back then the beauty standard was to look like an egg so-
@@andii- exactly imagine us putting on white Zink, poisoning paste and wearing huge wigs plus the Tudors loved sweets and sugar, possibly the worst time for teeth. I read a testimony that Elisabeth had near the end of her life only a few horrible brown teeth left and put minz coated cotton balls under her cheeks in order to maintain the cheekbones/ facial structures and have a fresh breath
Nah. Liz was much better looking than Mary, at least until Liz contracted smallpox.
@@charlie1567 Yes, Elizabeth was not attractive. She wanted to look like a statue so she painted herself with white paint. But even without that, she was not a pretty woman. There are paintings of her while she was still young and she wasn't pretty.
Considering how much Henry and Catherine loved Mary in her early childhood, imagine how happy they could’ve all been if Henry gave up on looking for a male heir.
That would've meant England being swallowed. Thimgs happen for A reason.
Then we would not have had the great Queen Elizabeth on the throne
@@Alan-gh8X True. But without the trauma and what happened with her father threatening her life and bastardizing her while she watched so many people she loved die or suffer execution, even if England didn't become protestant, Mary might have had the chance to be a good queen, like her mother who the country loved. In a way, I feel sorry for her. There is no excuse for burning multiple protestants at the stake. I think of the lives that could have been saved, even at the cost of England remaining Catholic. Henry VIII killed 57,000 people during this tumultuous time. If he settled Mary as the heir and matched her with a good husband, all the deaths may have been prevented.
She was only 42 when she died. She never got old She had cancer and that probably is what made her appear old.
In those years, it was considered old. Plus, her health wasn't already in good shape by the time of her death, as you pointed out. Mary wasn't in good health ever since her relationship with her father went downhill.
She aged badly due to the fact all the stress she was thrown under through her health issues, the false pregnancies, not having her love and affection returned from her husband Philip.
@@brooke6549 plus her father treating her badly. Declaring her illegitimate.
She died at my age 🙄
@@brooke6549 I mean probably, but the main thing *was* cancer that made her appear old. That's what cancer does.
That's why survivors look older than they are.
Wow, never thought she was even close to pretty with all of those awful portraits! Bringing her to life brought definite beauty I never thought to exist. Well done! Love the brief history, too!
Well, she wasn't known for good looks in her lifetime.
Yeah several people described her as not pretty in life
The way she looked reflects the suffering that she was subjected to throughout her life.
Catholic beautiful queen vs clown protestant queen aka elizabeth i
I think they drew her like that (a. Because they wanted to vilanize her (b. Because they wanted her to look imperious like a queen
Thank you I enjoyed it very much. I use to think of “Bloody Mary” as such a horrible person. She was not worse than the rest. I feel for her & how atrocious she was dealt with by her own father which led to her physical and emotional pain.
Yeah, history has done her wrong.
Agree. Henry was an abusive father to her, full- stop.
I’m so glad that Mary is getting respectful attention at long last. ♥️
she was a horrible person...but I understand where it came from , she just lived out her rage on wrong people... soomany innocent protestant martyrrs died in horrible way in the hands of Mary, burning alive is one of the worst ways to die also Mary was deeply brainwashed by catholic faith in my opinion what happened was necessary, if catholics would have stayed on power then people would have never got the chance to read the bible and think by themselves also Mary gets away with a lot ... people always talk about how rude Anne was to Mary but nobody ever talks how rude Mary was to Anne as well, calling her a "kings wh*re " in the front of everybody in the court even when Anne tried to be nice with her , I feel like people are turning a blind eye to many of the things she did because they feel bad for the things she had to go trough
@@HK-gm8pe The King James Bible was preceded by and largely based on the Douay-Rheims English translation of the Bible, which was made by English Catholics in exile. And Queen Elizabeth I had plenty of English Catholics tortured to death.
There was a great variance in Mary's appearance, looking at her portraiture. In some portraits she looks exquisitely beautiful and in others she appears downright demonic. Hard to say which ones are more believable, LOL.
i'm pretty sure the ones that look demonic are the more believable ones bc i highly doubt she'd have allowed it to be painted if it wasn't at least a semi flattering likeness. my guess is even the ugly portraits flatter her and i've always supposed that bc she was a princess everyone flattered her looks i mean could you imagine hviii if you said his daughter was at best moderately beautiful
Yeah. The artists that painted her are incoherent in her looks. But hopefully by looking at all her portraits we can gather a sense of what she might have looked like.
Mary was much better looking than Elizabeth. I’ve never seen any photo, where Elizabeth looked good.
@@cplmpcocptcl6306 Well, Elizabeth isn't the focus of this video, but since you raised the topic, I always thought she looked good in the Rainbow portrait.
@@jamesaron1967 Elizabeth was 60 at the time the portrait was made.
Both Mary and her mother (Catherine of Aragon), had sad lives and got raw deals. Thank you for bringing Mary to life.
Outside of monarchs....who didn't have horrible lives?
Henry V111 was a cruel tyrant .His marriage to Anne Bolynn was unlawful so really Mary was the true heir
Mary's reputation was created by Protestant historians, which began in Elizabeth's Reign. She was no more bloody than Elizabeth. Winners write history'
Correct!
I believe the quote by Winston Churchill is “history is written by victors”
Maybe, but Mary’s bloodiness made her one of the most hated monarchs in English history. So much so the day of her death became a public holiday. That hatred still has ramifications today.
@@Goodiesfanful her father and sister had more people executed. She was a Catholic Queen, which made her unpopular with Anglican historians.
@@leonieromanes7265 but you have to take into account that she had a far shorter reign than her father and sister.
Queen Mary was treated horrible by her father for a very long time. Depression and stress can cause health issues. Queen Elizabeth I was just was just as brutal to the Catholics. No one ever speaks about it.
It's because English history was written from a Protestant point of view after Queen Elizabeth's reign. They tarnished Mary's reign and gave her nicknames like Bloody Mary. Even though her sister and father killed more people than her.
@@BiG-JuPO1O1 Exactly! You just need to search the English inquistion to notice that english history only counts the existence of the inquistion during Catholic periods, similar or equivalent institutions during the Protestant periods are not aknowledged as inquisitory at all
She was also treated just as badly by Henry as Mary was. Her household had to send message to him asking for clothes for Elizabeth. He treated them both like crap.
What’s the logic here? Other people killed more, so she’s not that bad for killing?
@@MrFrinZy It's because Mary is called bloody Mary all because she killed Protestants, that number is about 300 within her 4-year reign. Which is less than Elizabeth and Henry who killed more.
I feel like she was quite pretty when she was younger, and then it's like the bitterness within her made her ugly....
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The lady in this documentary looks pretty close to her. I also hate it when they make her fat and have black hair
Also,Henry also considered marrying Mary to her own half brother Fritroy with the backing of the Catholic Church before Edward was born, because Anne failed to produce an heir
I wouldn't say bitterness. Being depressed, stressed, had health issues since she was a teen. Henry and Anne abused her and kept her away from her mother. Henry refused to give Mary a chance to see her mother before she died. Catherine was most likely heartbroken after what Henry did. Add that with Mary's illness, she had a rough life.
@@dovewing3986 She wasn't ugly at all. People age. But she definitely looked as if she was a take no nonsense kind of woman.
@@harrietharlow9929 she looked mean when she took the throne and she looked older than 42 (I'm 42 & I don't look nearly as old as Mary looked at that age)...
I pity her, she was a lovely , very intelligent child that went from having the love of both parents to losing her mother because of a mistress her father wanted, losing her reputation as a royal princess and becoming a bastard. To live under constant threats from her father because she would not relinquish her faith, to be executed as a traitor( there was issued a warrant for her to be arrested , tried and executed waiting for the King's signature) The only thing that kept this warrant from being signed is that his right hand realized that if Henry killed Mary, there would be a revolt by the people. They loved Catherine, regarded her as the true wife and Queen and Mary as the Princess Royal. He warned him that this act could destroy England into not only a civil war, but between two religions into a fire that may not be extinquished. Henry was tired of Mary's resistance and wanted this problem out of his life, there were those hinting that Mary should be made an example of before the people. Cromwell knew that this was the worst mistake Henry could make, lucky or unlucky Mary lived, exiled from court to a lonely life than made an maid to her newborn half-sister where she was bullied by servants and Anne made her life as miserable as she could. Mary had no one but the Spanish ambassador to give her loving attention, direction and understood the pressures that she endured. It is no wonder her faith was so important, could anyone of us kept our mental state from deteriorating to such a state under such threats, pressures and constant bullies who were so cruel? Her health problems , I believe were caused by this and her slow but steady decent into paranoia and the almost martyr complex she developed. She could not protect herself from either her father, or Ann, but her hatred could be taken out on the only person she could and that was her sister. It is very likely, a warrant for Elizabeth's death was waiting to be signed when Mary could get enough evidence to rid herself of the reason for her mother's fall from grace. By this time, Mary could not see that a baby was innocent of it's parent's crimes. Not able to vent her anger on her father who she both loved and feared, on the Woman who took her mother's place and bullied her, .... it's the old Dad hits Mom, Mom hits child, child kicks the dog. All this destroyed her health, her mind and beauty as portraits show. Philip of Spain was rather shocked that Mary looked nothing like her portrait he was shown. He did not find her attractive but old and worn looking and what he must have said in private ..... I feel, Mary was quite insane at the end of this, and it is so very sad how her life was destroyed and her reputation muddied . Yes, she had innocent people killed, but so did every King before her and after her- with much higher numbers. They can all be called Bloody including Elizabeth who though having natural intelligence, beauty and an very early understanding of the power games surrounding her, also inherited so not so good character traits from both her parents which became very evident during her reign. Yes, she was smart, acute and determined to be her own person, but also could be vindictive, jealous of other women's beauty, wanting to be sexualized as the most alluring woman who loved to flirt yet keep at a distance handsome men who were to idolize her only, when they married -- all Hell broke loose and some lost their heads because of it, making untruth as truth is what Monarchs did if they got pissed off. She refused to sleep and have sex with them, but they were to be always sexually attracted and available to extol her beauty and never marry for this was a betrayal of her. Sounds very much like Henry thinking he was so attractive even when he was fat and had oozing sore that stank. She lost her beauty and grew old as is normal, but for Elizabeth this was life betraying her and she would not have it, she still required handsome men to tell her of her beauty and woe betide the beu who could not carry off this lie off. Like her mother, she craved power and welded it with spite at times. Her temper could explode without warning and her ministers must have had fun trying to deal with Elizabeth as they did with Henry, never quite sure what reactions they would get. Like all of us, none are perfect angels nor absolute devils , but absolute power has a way of bringing out the worst in many of us -- some more than others. We need to remember that written history is often not completly honest, sometimes very inaccurate, and deliberate lies are told about situations, and people. That has not changed even in our timeline.
You captured this beautifully.
No one seems to understand the devastation and complete social trauma of the break with Rome and the Dissolution of the churches and monasteries. The social fabric and actual building landscape of 900 years ripped apart from rich to poor. Mary was front and center to all of this.
Her father and Elizabeth had hundreds executed between them, wording changed the execution warrants for treason, yet because of the success of the next reign and religion, she still carries that epitaph - but definitely not saying Cranmer deserved that martyrs death, none of them did. Does anyone know if anyone on her counsel argued against the burnings? But to argue with the monarch could be treason - no one wins. What raw and terrible times.
Well put. 👏🏿 I 💯 agree for all Mary went through she cannot be faulted especially for the times
I'm not going to read all of this, but I was struck by an inaccuracy in the first line of what you wrote. And I'll try to keep this short. Mary did not lose her mother "because of a mistress her father wanted." She lost her mother because she didn't have a living full brother. She lost her mother because her father wanted a legitimate son.
@@jn8ive60 you are right because that was the core issue for Henry's decisions. I wrote this too late at night. lol
@@myrnaskogland1268 Thanks, and I'll read your entire post later when I have more time.
I admire the generosity of your recreations.
Your narrations are so clear and succinct. Great info
Both Queen Katherine and Queen Mary I of England are tragic figures. Especially Henry prohibiting the Queen Katherine and the then Princess Mary from seeing each other, saying farewell on Katherine’s deathbed, is the most cruel act towards these Queens.
I love everything Tudor. I would enjoy seeing Mary Tudor ("The French Queen" / Henry VIII's younger sister & the "beauty" of the family) and Charles Brandon (Henry VIII's bestie) along with their granddaughters, Lady Jane Grey (9 days queen), Catherine Grey (another "beauty" who got in trouble for marrying Ned Seymour without Elizabeth I's permission - great story there) and Mary Grey (the shortest lady at court who married the biggest man at court - and also got in trouble, since the Grey sisters were rivals for Elizabeth's throne). Would also love to see Margaret Tudor (Henry VIII's older sister & queen consort of Scotland). And Thomas Cromwell and Cardinal Wolsey for good measure! Basically all the Who's Who of the Tudor Era! 🤣 Your videos are so fun to watch.
I would definitely love to see Mary Tudor (Queen of France) Henry VIII's sister.
She couldn’t have been that horrible. She was beautiful child, and I’m sure she wouldn’t have been how she was without the lovely way her father treated her. It’s not many fathers out there who constantly threaten to cut your head off. And could do it legally. Elizabeth was a mess too. They both could barely eat, and had “episodes”.
They would have been offered counselling nowadays and help for their mental health issues caused by an abusive and terrifying father
I LOVE your videos! You present an enjoyable video of history along with how royals may have looked. Portraits are so stern, your work humanizes the historical figures and make them more relatable.
Great Video. I remember reading this Alternate Story wher Philip II and Mary Tudor had son- this was the start of the Habsburh-Tudor Dynasty.
Queen Mary was such a tragic figure. So sad..... Apparently she was very kind and merciful to the poor. She DOESN'T deserve the title BLOODY MARY.
She wasn't much more bloody than others on the English thrown.
Mary has one of the most tragic stories from beginning to end in all of English royal history. And while she was definitely a victim of her times, she was strong, intelligent, fiercely kind and generous to a fault...like her mother before her. It's important to note that, at the end of her life she DID have a choice. She chose to uphold her father's line of succession and pass the crown to Elizabeth rather than have her executed. I know she didn't like it, but she also went waaaay out of her way to avoid having to execute Jane Grey. Both of these say a lot about who Mary actually was.
But Mary DID have Jane Grey executed...at the age of 16, so what do you mean she went out of her way to avoid it?
@@melissasecrest8223 Jane was executed a while after she was overthrown. Mary acknowledged that she was a child and probably a pawn of her father so had her kept out of the public with the understanding that she'd be kept out of the way for a while then let out to live quietly, but Jane would write letters to nobles reminding them that she was queen and her father started a rebellion in her name, so in the end, Mary was left in an impossible position, particularly as Spain would not approve her marriage to Phillip if there was any threat to her throne.
Fiercely kind and generous to a fault.. heh? 🤨
@@Ilive_420 Yes. Exactly. Like Christians should be.
I also thought she was disgusting and evil, but then I learned more about her and her bad life and today I love her very much because she was not a horrible person, but she was the total opposite, and we have no reason to hate her when other rulers are also had death sentences and killed masses of people. She wasn't the worst of them, she was more of a victim than a villain to be honest.
I am happy that your channel is growing its really something unique , like never ever seen such content on youtube
Much appreciated your Empress Elisabeth Video! You could do another one, this time with colored and animated photos of her, telling some trivial anecdotes of her life. Thank u!
You shuld have much more views and likes. Thanks for your great job.
Young Queen Mary was a beauty.
To you.
She was never young when she was a queen. She became queen when she was middle aged and her looks had been ruined by a toxically stressful life
@@scz1770 but as a young lady she was pretty like her younger sister, Elizabeth...
@@jamellfoster6029 lmao Elizabeth wasn't pretty. Striking and attractive, but not pretty
@@scz1770 she resembled her sister just taller & with a kinder facial expression...
You should try Henry II of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine soon.
Your work is remarkable. I know it’s just an artist interpretation but still historical figures coming to life is astonishing. By all accounts Mary was loving sister to baby Elizabeth and enjoyed attending her
King Henry called Mary "The pearl of his world" Queen Catherine and her daughter were allowed to see each other breifly just once before Queen Catherine was sent into exile.
Mary had been a graceful child with glorious long red hair, 'as beautiful as ever seen on human head'. In 1531 the Venetian ambassador described her as having a 'pretty face, a very beautiful complexion [and a] well-proportioned physique'. Two years later, another Venetian wrote that she was 'of low stature with a red and white complexion, and very thin'. Her eyes were large and pale, 'so piercing that they inspire not only respect but fear'. However, her alarming stare was the result of her eyesight being so poor 'that to read she must hold the page close to her face'. She had a tightly-buttoned, thin-lipped mouth and a flat, retrousse nose; by the time she entered adulthood she had, like many of her contemporaries, lost most of her teeth.
Even if she was the best looking person in the world it won't make her more likable. Megan markle is beautiful, but shes unpopular and she didnt even burn anyone at a stake. Honestly looks dont matter.
Most common people had good teeth. They had no sugar. Only the rich could afford sugar.
A great video. Thank you for posting.
I’m a new subscriber and I absolutely love your videos!! My 16 year old son and I are history buffs and he’s enjoys them too. Thank you for all of your hard work in creating these videos!
This was beautifully done I really enjoy the things you put on your channel but I think this was extremely fine you have given her real charm.
There's not a single portrait of her where she looks happy. She seems to have been stressed and miserable her entire life. If she'd had a better life, maybe she would have been a different queen.
Wow, I think this is my ancestral line, I look just like her! 😅
Can you PLEASE do Elizabeth Woodville and her daughter Elizabeth of York?
I know there is much less portraiture of them but it would be awesome to see them come to life!!
Thanks for the awesome work!!
Portraits of royalty would have been flattering; the fact that Mary's still so plain in all of them speaks volumes about how she must have looked in real life.
A couple of others you might like are from the English Civil War. They are King Charles the frist wife Henrietta Maria and Prince Rupert of the Rhine. Just a thought. Wonderful videos!!
Great job! 👍 Joséphine de Beauharnais would be great too!
Thank you for an excellent video! Despite everything, I feel great respect and adoration for Queen Mary I.
She proposed to King Phillip of Spain and as he was greedy to reign over England and keep it catholic, he married her. She hardly ever saw him and seemingly wasn't too keen TO spend time with her. Poor Mary, a terribly fervent catholic.
Awesome! Could you do also the mortal face of Mary Stuart ?
Awesome! Thank you, it comes to life!
Mary lost most of her teeth by the time she was an adult, a common thing back then. It is also documented that stress of the treatment she suffered at the hands of her father when her parents split affected her looks and gave her lots of health problems.
It is said her health issues began when she became pubescent, she likely had endometriosis
@@dendenne4856 they put it down to what they called “strangulation of the womb”, which they believed was caused by lack of husband. It was also the time of the miseries caused by her father’s conduct.
No. Most common people had good teeth. Only the rich could afford sugar.
@@wednesdayschild3627 It was Elizabeth who was reported to have lost her teeth because of sugar
I think that she “would have” lived longer if she had had the ability. If she had lived longer, history would be different.
I can really see her in her dad’s animated face. The eyes and mouth.
Thank you for this very interesting video.
Amazing and creative work thank you 👍
Wowcha Ur voice is incredible!!. How u talk about the subject's in all Ur videos is very relaxing yet seriously capturing
Wonder how it would've gone for many of royalties if only they had known at the time that it's the FATHER who determines child's sex, not the mother
Think of how many women suffered trying to give birth to a boy, when they had nothing to do with the sex.
What about the fact females can destroy one type (male or female) of sperm depending on the chemicals in the uterus at the time? Yes the male sperm determines whether it will be a girl, boy & anything in between.
She never got old.
Depends on your definition of old. She was 42 when she died, but all the emotional, medical, and dutiful stress she experienced in her life aged her.
You can be pretty as a child and grow plainer as you grow older. Mary did suffer from neglect from Henry as a distant father and being then made a bastard. Mary as Queen did not execute Elizabeth even though there was much pressure to do so. Philip of Spain was quite a catch but Mary was eager to get pregnant but it was not to be. This must have been so humiliating. After Mary’s death Philip did propose to Elizabeth but she declined can’t fault her on that considering he was behind Protestant persecution.
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Karma was just right to him. He thought he died with a Male heir.
Jokes on him...ha ha
Your recreations are amazing- keep up the good work. As a history buff, I've always viewed Mary I as a bitter & self-possessed woman- taking out her disappoints on Europe thru religious war & intolerance. I believe Elizabeth I had to walk on eggshells to deal with her before becoming queen herself.
This is mermerizing. You've done a fantastic job. As a simple suggestion: it might be good to add the name of each character displayed, so we know exactly who we're looking at. But this is absolutely amazing.
I am sorry but yes Henry and Elizabeth killed many people but Elizabeth reigned for 45 years and Henry for 36 years, MAry reigned only for 5 years and she burned over 290 people nobody had ever burned soo many people with soo little time
So many of the commenters conveniently forget that fact
@@heckinbasedandinkpilledoct7459 yes, Mary gets away with a lot ,people sympathize with her because she had sad childhood but Elizabeth had even worse childhood and Mary was still a horrible person in my eyes, burning alive is one of the most painful ways to die, Mary was totally crazy , I dont understand why people defend her recently
You may want to read up more on Henry VIII and his thousands of victims. Please remember that he is the one who started the killings. Being burnt is terrible, but Henry VIII's method was worse. He would have a person hung. While still alive, he would have them disemboweled. Afterwards, they would be lowered and quartered. .People are defending Mary, because of the gross distortion of her through the centuries.
Thank you. I really enjoyed this.
Well hello Gretta!
I would love to see Mary Queen of Scots. I've always read she was pretty and quite charming.
And very tall. She was tall for a man of the era but it ran in her family. A lot of plantagenets & Tudors are described as over 6 ft, but I think Mary may have been the only woman. There's something in the back of my mind saying there's another but I can't think of her.
Your videos, work, and knowledge are excellent.
She was not scary she was and continues to this day to be the greatest Queen in all of England, not one Monarch can compare. She is the greatest Queen that England ever had. #GODSAVEQUEENMARYI
Mary is such a tragic character. Honestly,her father ruined her life and she seemed so full of hate by the time she got the throne.
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I a,ways felt this specific portrait definitely gave her a classic RBF, despite what appears to be a slight smile/smirk. Renaissance era RBF lol. I like it. Impressive.
FASCINATING STORY OF QUEEN MARY I OF ENGLAND,
She looks like too many teachers I've had.
Hey, can you do a portrait of Elizabeth percy seymours please of alnwick castle 1st duchess x
The actress Laura Linney looks like Mary the 1st. She needs to play her in a movie one day. 🍿 🎥
Hey what do you think about go far far back, would love to see you bring Nofretete to life since she was the most beautiful woman of her time!! Would love to see that beside she was married to Echnaton who was a not liked Pharaoh since he was obsessed with the sun as God and only wanted him, which was his Downfall... So Nofretete would be awesome!
Oooh these dresses
Beautiful
Love it
Love it
Mary also had very bad teeth which also could have caused many major medical problems for her as well.
in that age, everybody had bad theets
Sad really. People's teeth were much healthier before sugar was introduced. I'd hate to think of the pain they went through. Better to be poor & live on vegetables.
the stress of not being able to have a male heir, her entire life being changed, and not being allowed to contact her mother. she was probably so stressed that it manifested into the hair loss, tooth loss, etc etc.
I love Mary Tudor
Love to see Cleopatra!
Could you do a reconstruction of Quuen Caroline Matilda of Denmark?
Can you do Catherine Howard
i absolutely love Queen Mary! 😍
Eeew🤮
Please, Maria II (de la película LA FAVORITA).
That movie clip is from the film about Anne Boleyn and her sister Mary.😮
Catherine of Argon was a beauty, and was highly intelligent.
Holy Moly , her life was an absolute rollercoaster.
She had a rough' young life, unloved by her father once Anne Boleyn came along!
At 8:30 mark, Mary resembles Sara Gilbert who hosted The Talk.
I really think it's her eyebrows that throws it off . She proberly looked more serious and stress in her older portraits. But I'm pretty positive she was beautiful. But cancer and youth got the best of her early. Honestly she was proberly better looking that elizabeth
It would be more appropriate to say that Mary is the only child of Henry and Katherine to survive to adulthood. There were 2 male babies who were live born. One lived to around 2 months and one just a few days. There was one female baby who was either stillborn or only lived a few hours, but the sources are unclear. Katherine also suffered several miscarriages, including her first pregnancy. Her physicians convinced her that the miscarried child was one of a twin, and that the twin remained, but this was untrue. Differing sources tell of her number of pregnancies, some where she went into confinement, some where she did not reach her last 60-90 days when confinement would begin. Most count Katherine's number of pregnancies at 6-8. So, to say that Mary was the only child, is untrue, just the only lived child to live past 60 days.
have you noticed how mary looks like dennis waterman the actor
That’s funny!!!!
What a terrible comment about a human being who suffered so much.
Mary died of a stomach distension, better known as stomach cancer today. But before this Mary had claimed to have been pregnant numerous times by Philip II. But never producing a prince, she went through what was called phantom pregnancy, it's a condition where a woman feels as though she is pregnant, but there's no proof of a baby. Nevertheless, this sent Mary into a deep depression and never emerging from her palace. Philip at this point turned his back on Mary and sailed back to Spain, leaving Mary alone. Shortly after Mary passed away England needed a queen, so one of Mary's councilors removed a ring from her finger and rode out to find Elizabeth, when he found her he told her that her sister had just died and that now she was Queen of England. Elizabeth was anointed and given the scepters of the monarch. Queen Elizabeth I was crowned and ended up governing England for 43 years today her reign is still considered a golden age.
Mary was not a kind person, but then how could she be. Her father was a selfish,cruel man. Also mixing religion and politics is a recipe for disaster.
She was actually very kind, her policies are just evidence that she product of her own times. She didn't WANT to burn people, her society taught her that it had to be done. Burning as a judicial punishment for heresy existed long before her reign.
Thank you👍🏻👍🏻
Can you one of Mary Stuart Queen of Scotts...😉
Her mother and she are both beautiful. In particular, her mother is also called "the most beautiful creature in the world". They are never ugly.
My favorite of all the Tudors simply because she was such an interesting but tragic figure.
No one can say for sure whether Henry VIII 's syphillis was a factor in failure to conceive. He apparently absolutely stunk with the supporating ulcers on his legs. What a trial for his young wives.. maybe the scaffold was a relief. These english monarchs are a weird bunch, yet people were expected to be 'subjects' to them. Crazy.
Henry viii her father was beyond cruel to her.
if Cromwell was alive during her time he wouod have no doubt overthrown her
Maybe, the Tudors were fierce rulers and had plenty of support.
The population was still very Catholic at the time. He would not have succeeded.
I had always heard that Mary Tudor was actually the pretty sister but became aged and careworn before her time while Elizabeth was homely with an overlarge hook nose and carrot orange hair, ( Mary's was a dark, rich red but not auburn.)
There is an actor, over here in the UK, called Dennis Waterman who looks exactly like the later portrait.
I think because she was a strict ruler they made her look mean to an extent
Her looks are the result of the suffering she through in life.
She had such a hard life... One can't feel sorry for her on the other hand
No, the instant she send inocent people to torture and horrible deaths she lost any claim of simpathy from most decent human beings, even for her times she was terrible, "Bloody Mary" Indeed.
@@cesaravegah3787 So has Queen Elizabeth and King Henry yet nobody bashes them. The only reason why she called bloody Mary is due to Protestants taking over. All leaders of that time were harsh if you compare them to today's standards.
@@BiG-JuPO1O1 Henry was dispised by millions and Elizabeth only had marginally better rep because she was lucky repelling the invasion, no simpathy for them either, not by me at least.
@@BiG-JuPO1O1 let it go. It's mainly catholic people that keep calling Queen Mary , Bloody Mary. She is dead. It would have been nice if she had married a nice King & she hadn't had health problems, but that isn't what happened.
@@iriswaterford8881 It was the protestants that called her that, and started it.