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Nov 9, 2009 · England’s first female monarch, Mary I (1516-1558) ruled for just five years. The only surviving child of Henry VIII and his first wife, Catherine of Aragon, Mary took the throne after the brief ...
Sep 16, 2019 · Queen of England and Ireland (disputed): July 10, 1553–July 19, 1553. The reluctant nine-day queen of England, Lady Jane Grey was supported by the Protestant party to follow Edward VI, to try to prevent the Roman Catholic Mary from taking the throne. She was a great-granddaughter of Henry VII. Mary I deposed her, and had her executed in 1554.
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- Mary I, 1553 – 1558. Also known as Bloody Mary for the civil war that England was plunged into during her reign, Queen Mary I was the first female monarch of England.
- Elizabeth I, 1558 -1603. The namesake of the first Elizabethan age, Queen Elizabeth I was the daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn. She is often remembered for her intellect and for her bold choice to never marry, famously saying that she was “already bound unto a husband which is the Kingdom of England”.
- Anne, 1702 – 1714. Almost a hundred years later, Queen Anne was the second daughter of King James II. She had 17 pregnancies in her lifetime but just one child survived, William, who died of smallpox aged only 11.
- Victoria, 1837 – 1901. Queen Victoria was the only child of Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg and Edward Duke of Kent, the fourth son of George III. She is the second-longest reigning British monarch at 63 years and 216 days, second only to Queen Elizabeth II.
Jan 31, 2015 · Mary I was the first Queen of England to be crowned in her own right. Mary Tudor was born on February 18, 1516, at the Palace of Placentia. She was the daughter of King Henry VIII and his first wife, Catherine of Aragon. Mary was a devout Catholic and spent much of her early life in the care of her grandmother, Margaret Beaufort.
The first woman to rule England in her own right didn’t simply inherit the throne. She seized it with unprecedented ambition from those who sought to thwart her. Historian Sarah Gristwood ...
May 16, 2022 · On 19 July the council unanimously agreed to proclaim Mary as queen, who was behind the walls of Framlingham when she found out. She still had to be actually crowned (and she was in October) but history was made – England finally had a female ruler. A plaque at Framlingham Castle in Suffolk marks where Mary Tudor was proclaimed Queen of ...
Queen Mary I ruled England from 1553-1558 and was the first female monarch to rule the country. She was the daughter of Henry VIII and his first wife Catherine of Aragon. Although the oldest child in the family, she only became Queen after the death of her younger brother Edward VI; the rules of succession meant that the first-born son ...
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