Mary Tudor
Later to be known as Bloody Mary.
The young Mary.
• Mary was Henry VIII’s first
child.
• She was a pretty girl who was
good at languages, science
and music.
• She was a good dancer and
good at sewing too.
• After his divorce from
Catherine, Henry refused to let
Mary stay with her mother.
• She was kept apart from her
mother for much of the time
and rarely saw her father.
• At 17 she had to
become lady in
waiting to Princess
Elizabeth and she
was not allowed to
see her mother again.
• She only came back
to court when Jane
Seymour persuaded
Henry to allow it.
• Mary had not been a
very well child and
this was to be a
problem later in her
life.
• She became Queen
at 37 and was
determined to return
England to the one
true faith…Roman
Catholic.
Mary marries Philip of Spain
• Mary was pleased to
marry Philip. He was
handsome and a very
powerful ROMAN
CATHOLIC!
• Philip was less pleased to
marry Mary!
• She was older than he
had been led to believe,
dressed badly and had no
eyebrows!
Married life
• Mary loved her new husband.
The English people did not.
• Why do you think this was?
• Mary rose every day at dawn
and worked until midnight. She
only saw her husband at meal
times and in the evenings
when she played the lute for
him.
• Soon Mary believed she was
carrying the baby that would
ensure her half sister Elizabeth
would not inherit the throne.
• Mary was wrong!
Married life
• In fact this happened twice to
Mary. She thought she was
pregnant because she wanted
it so badly. Doctors now
believe that she had stomach
cancer and this was what
made her stomach swell up.
• Philip left Mary for good this
time to fight a war in France.
He did not return.
• He was cross that Mary had
never made him King.
• He felt humiliated that she had
never had his son and heir.
Mary’s rule.
• Mary was determined
to return all her
people to the true
faith.
• She believed she was
saving their souls by
insisting on this.
• When they refused to
change their ways
she had them burnt at
the stake.
Bloody Mary
• It was these burnings
at the stake which
gave Mary the name
by which she is still
known today.
• More than 300 people
were burned at the
stake during her reign
for refusing to
become Roman
Catholic…..heresy.
The End
• In April 1558, when Mary
was 42, she became
quite ill after realizing that
she was not pregnant, for
the second time.
• She died in November
without a child to succeed
her.
• Elizabeth, her half sister,
and child of the woman
who had replaced her
mother in their father’s
affections, now became
the last Tudor monarch.