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The story of Queen Mary I starts with her father King Henry VIII and her mother Catherine of Aragon. She was born into royalty being the first-born child of King Henry the VIII and the Spanish princess Catherine of Aragon. She also was a pawn of England’s bitter rivalry with more powerful nations by being betrothed in marriages to other King’s sons, desired as an ally. She then was betrothed at last to the Holy Roman emperor, her cousin Charles V. by 1525 she then was named princess of wales by her father. Queen Mary was very active in her religion of Devout Catholic. Due to her father making himself supreme head of the Church of England, she decided to go against all of her father’s religious commands. After her father Henry Married Catherine

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