Queen Mary I - Bloody Mary-Tudor Dynasty 

Thank you so very much for these. I am very grateful, and I love history!😊❤🎭

Mary wasn’t said to be plain or ugly. When she became queen, she was almost 40 (old for the era), and had been suffering with severe ill-health for decades, yet her appearance was still complimented, and in her youth Mary was described as “one of the most beautiful and virtuous ladies of the world”. Her looks garnered countless praises e.g. “for beauty of face she hath few fellows that I know”, and “her beauty and grace is incredible”, even from her political enemies. There are few surviving contemporary portraits of Mary so it is hard to judge her appearance on the basis of those alone. The way Mary has been portrayed is so sexist. The nickname “Bloody Mary” is disgustingly unjust when you consider that she was actually the most merciful ruler of her era, and much-beloved in her own time. Part of the propaganda campaign against her has involved reducing this highly intelligent, astute and very capable queen down to a base rendering of her as an ugly old hag, which is not only untrue, but tiresomely superficial. The same thing happened to Richard III with gross exaggerations of his supposedly “grotesque deformities” used to defame his character.

Thank you! I imagine being branded a bastard by her father to the country didn't give Mary very fond feelings towards him when she decided to restore Catholicism. It's extraordinary though how one family's dramas, because they were royal, could turn a country on its head several times!

I thoroughly enjoy all your videos and talents. The music is perfect 👌 I can't begin to imagine how hopeless and sad Mary must have felt being rejected by her father and replaced with Elizabeth.

Excellent: thank you!!!

Very good as always.

Always love these videos!!! People look so much prettier (or handsome depending on male/female) when shown this was rather than the portraits. Thank you for all your hard work. So very interesting to see how people looked when lifelike rather than the paintings (although the paintings are fabulous too). ❤

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Thank you, that was very moving, an excellent video.

Please make videos of the other Queens Regnant!! Elizabeth I, Mary II, Anne, Victoria & Elizabeth II

Philip had the hapsburg jaw then!

She and I are distant relatives. We share a birthday ad and our eyes are the same.

Seeing bloody Mary with smile, is amazing. She never seemed attrative to me. Even though I read that she was lovely in her teens.

“Set the stage for future conflicts between england and spain” where her half sister elizabeth I will prevail

I think you were kind to her with your images. She was "plain" as you put it. All of your work is great! ❤

@PanagiotisConstantinou @PanagiotisConstantinou @PanagiotisConstantinou Can you make a video for Henry Lord Darnley? The second husband of Queen Mary of Scotland and father of King James I of England? Thanks!!

It's so weird (and a bit unnerving) seeing her smiling

Nicely done!!! Mary's mother was Catherine of Aragon by her first marriage with Henry VIII, she was the sister of Joanna the Mad who became the mother of two Habsburg Holy Roman Emperors Charles V and Ferdinand I,right?!. In 1554 Mary I married to Philip II, Habsburg King of Spain, they were cousins, likely I guess.. 🆗️. By the way, I am happy to be interested in what I am watching this video clip. I am definitely proud of your great job on those events of Mary's lifespan 👏👏.. With my honest heart, loyalty and big respect. 😉👍

It's nicely done, however all the late portraits of her don't show accurate hair colour-they are darkened to more brownish red. She had golden strawberry blond hair(rather dark shade of that), a very golden colour in real life. Just like her mother and grandmother Isabella. Nowadays you can only see that in few undarkened copies of her portraits or -and only under certain lighting- in Fitzwilliam portrait or in portrait (imo mis)labelled as lady Mary Sidney-which is identified as lady Sidney only due to non-contemporary label but it is spitting image of Mary. However Fitzwilliam portrait as many others from this time has bit of pigment instability in skintones and as result her nose looks flat.

Mary had the misfortune to be born in a royal dynasty that didn’t want her because of being female. She was pretty (paintings in those days made everyone look frumpy). She would have made someone a wife and mother of children but she was unable to do a ‘good’ marriage because of her being declared illegitimate. She could have had such a different happy life. Instead she became bitter and vengeful.

4:37 😮I took one look at King Philip II and thought to myself, 'Hmmm, I wonder if Spain had Habsburg blood!", because he had that Habsburg Chin!😬🙋🏽‍♀️👍🏻🎭

The version with the short hair really resembles the Tudor men , in my humble opinion. Like the young versions of her father and uncle, even with her grandfather. I also don't think she was ugly. But the portraits at the time have had a certain style, which were not always flattering.

Lady Jane Grey didn't 'seize the throne'. She was named successor by Edward and renounced it in an attempt to save her life. She was only 17 when Mary had her killed

Red hair from her father obviously but her face she was like her mother

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Where did you get the starting and ending sinister sounding music from? I thought it might be Alien, but I just checked and although it's similar it isn't the same.

La verdadera Bloody Mary

Thanks for this remarkable restoration of famous people Mr.CP I have questions are you Greek??

Thanks To This Video.

*Bloody Mary scares me.*

Hola, ví tu vídeo del emperador romano Constancio II,pero podrías hacer un vídeo de sus hermanos los emperadores Constantino II y constante y también de su madre Fausta esposa de su padre el emperador Constantino I? Existen las esculturas de ellos.tambien me gustaría que dijeras en qué lugar o en qué museo se encuentran las esculturas y pinturas que salen en tus videos.gracias

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Was Phillip a cousin to Queen Mary?

Thank you. Mary was said to be plain but her mother was noted for being pretty in her youth ( others rather than the usual sycophants saying so) and Henry was known to cut a fine figure as a youth. Happens sometimes, attractive parents snd the offspring is plain. Poor girl, she did not have an easy life. 🙏🙏👵🇦🇺

I’m not going to lie, when she turned her head to the screen she scared the hell out of me, I felt like she ordered my execution 😳

I thought you had covered her.

she was a redhead! With colours of redhead woman. This one did not go well at all. The painting of her is so good, this is terrible, sorry. You turned her to brownhaired man :D

Looks very manly and androgynous

... and then, Elisabeth I came along... 👍👌

She gets a bad rap. We don't say bloody Henry, which he was. Parliament approved of the executions. She was the first real woman ruler of England and there would be no Elizabeth without Mary. There was very little choice to marry except to marry the Spanish prince. France was the traditional enemy of England. She wasn't going to marry a German protestant. Henry tried that and it ended in disaster. She put down at least 2 rebellions.