Mary I Tudor. Birth and family

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I decided to take this topic because I was always interested in origin nickname of Mary I Tudor. Why was she called so? What did she do to deserve this nickname? There is even a cocktail with the same name. So, i found some information about this queen. And here it is. She was the only surviving child born of the ill-fated marriage of Henry VIII and his first wife Catherine of Aragon. Her younger half-brother, Edward VI, succeeded Henry in 1547. When Edward became mortally ill in 1553, he attempted to remove Mary from the line of succession because of religious differences. On his death, their cousin Lady Jane Grey was at first proclaimed queen. Mary assembled a force in East Anglia and successfully deposed Jane, who was ultimately beheaded. In 1554, Mary married Philip of Spain, becoming queen consort of Habsburg Spain on his accession in 1556.