Quote Originally Posted by lastlid View Post

Married to Henry VIII' s daughter?
Correct ... Mary Tudor inherited her Catholic faith from her mother, Katherine of Aragon - the first of Henry's wives - and, towards the end of her relatively short reign, became better-known as 'Bloody Mary' (NOT, of course, to be with the modern tomato juice based cocktail of the same name! ) due to her relentless religious persecution of the [then] new Protestant dissenters.