E51: Mary I with Dr Valerie Schutte
All Things Tudor - The Podcast
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Tudorqueenship - What Is It All About?
I think that she did have lots of stress. I mean, she was often kind of caught in the middle or a focal point of some things that she wasn't even involved in. She became a symbol for Catholicism. And then during her reign, she had to take on, you know, she didn't have children, but she thought she was pregnant and her husband was a foreigner and he kept leaving. There really would have been lots of stress on her shoulders by the time that she did pass away in 1558.
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