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did 'Bloody Mary' deserve her title?
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Does Queen Mary 1st deserve the title "Bloody Mary"? Henry the 8th had 6 wives. When his first wife, Catherine of Aragon was divorced, her daughter Mary was declared illegitimate and had her right to the throne removed. Then, when she refused to pay her respects to his second daughter, Elizabeth her father refused to see her. In 1536 she swore an oath declaring that her mother had been justly divorced (in contrast, she wrote to the Pope, informing him that she had been forced to take it). The third wife, Jane Seymour was the daughter of Sir John Seymour was first, in 1530 the lady in waiting for Catherine of Aragon and then for Anne Boleyn. When Henry's marriage with Anne Boleyn was falling apart, Jane Seymour caught the eye of Henry 8th. Eleven days after Anne Boleyn's execution, (due to Henry's accusations of witchcraft and adultery) Jane...
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