The Most Evil Women In History Bloody Mary Tudor

Mary I (18 February 1516 17 November 1558) was Queen of England and Ireland from July 1553 until her death. Her executions of Protestants caused her opponents to give her the sobriquet Bloody Mary. She was the only child of Henry VIII and his first wife Catherine of Aragon who survived to adulthood. Her younger halfbrother Edward VI (son of Henry and Jane Seymour) succeeded their father in 1547. When Edward became mortally ill in 1553, he attempted to remove Mary from the line of succession because of