The Forgotten Tudor Queen: Bloody Mary | Mary I | Real Royalty 

I don't see Mary as the forgotten Tudor. More people know about her and her life's story than know about her brother, Edward VI. If there is a forgotten Tudor it is him.

The true villain in this story is not Mary but Henry VIII. He was pathological - from having his wives executed to being emotionally abusive to his children. He was a true monster.

How is she forgotten? She has a drink named after her. She is one of the most famous queens in English and European history. She is known to anyone with a passing interest in English history and is one of the few queens of that era the general public has heard of. Queen Elizabeth I, Mary Queen of Scots and Bloody Mary are all famous.

“Fat and ugly”? Really? Really? Pretty sure Henry’s divorce with Catherine of Aragon had more to do with lack of male heir than just that 🙄 also pretty sure that at this point the only one getting really fat and ugly was the King himself. Catherine was beloved by the English, and I’m sure her looks weren’t an issue in the grand scheme of things.

I just really admire how both Mary and Catherine stayed loyal and true to their faith and their morals. It takes courage to do that.

If there's one thing I've learned from Mary's story is no matter how bad things are they can always get better...and then get even worse again with time.

She's not forgotten, a wee bit overshadowed by her younger sister but definitely not forgotten. If there's anyone that's forgotten, it's Lady Jane Grey, poor young girl who had a tragic ending. 😭

It is rather sad to hear Katherine described as "fat and ugly." She had been very pretty in her day and she was a popular Queen, well liked by the people of England. During her time as Henry's wife he both loved and respected Katherine, as is shown by Katherine taking over as Regent when Henry was away.

I'm stuck at home on complete bed rest from surgery recovery and I'm really enjoying this series so far. I've been binge watching this channel for almost 3 days now.

Mary had a cruel destiny as well as Catherine and all the king's wives... Henry VIII was a true monster.

History is written by the winners. I feel a great deal of sorrow for Mary, and to go against her dying wishes and not bury her with her mother is tragic and so wrong. For her to only be recognized by a simple black seal, and given the nickname of Bloody Mary even in death is sad. I feel for those she executed, but let’s not pretend she was the only Tudor monarch to execute hundreds. She should have been buried with her mother, and given proper funeral burial fitting of a Queen. How terribly upsetting her life was. Her father ruined her. She may have been happy if not for his cruelty. Just sad all around.

Henry put Mary through so much mental anguish it’s no wonder the poor girl ended up with so many mental problems. When Elizabeth was born he like threw Mary away. Mary’s mind was so messed up instead of actually blaming her father, she blamed the Protestant religion. Henry did so much mental damage to her she was mentally broken. I feel so sorry for Mary, all she really wanted was her father’s love and affection. Such a sad young girl, even her brother treated her badly because of her religion my heart goes out to Mary and her suffering

The one thing I took away from this is that Henry VIII was the true bastard.

What is so sad is she only wanted to be a mother. My heart breaks for women who want children but cannot have them.

I think that Mary's father, Henry VIII, was responsible for vastly more deaths than Mary. Should he be called "Bloody Henry"?

The more I learn of Henry, the more I think he doesn’t deserve one bit a title like The Great, more like The Terrible. I don’t think Mary can be blamed for being so angry as Queen. She’d stoked that fire ever since her entire life was ripped away by her mentally and emotionally abusive father.

No matter whether your on team Elizabeth or team Mary they both had a pretty horrendous time before even coming to the crown.

who ever the lady actress portraying Mary in this video is outstanding amazing 🙂

I very much like listening to David Starky. He speaks beautifully with a clear, crisp British accent 👌 I am a cockney from London's East End and I am fascinated with Londons history and past royalty, so to hear his fluent and eloquent oratory skills on such subjects are utterly absorbing to me!

It was all about a male heir for the king. Both Mary & Elizabeth were treated horribly growing up. It surely affected both girls. Mary had Catholicism ingrained in her & Elizabeth Protestantism. Mary was determined to reverse her father’s Protestant religion & allowed terrilble violence as a result. Elizabeth learned, was stronger, had Cecil as her advisor, listened & wisely never married. Henry the VIII was evil.

So let's remember that also catherine taught mary how to be a ruling queen. Not just anne boleyn, there were a lot of feminist figures in tudor family.

I honestly feel that even though Mary was genuine with her attempts of ridding England of "evil", she was just plain old pissed!

My mother’s favorite queen of England was Catherine of Aragon. She watched every movie and show that portrayed queen Cathrine. This year 2022 on January 7th mom died at the age of 88 same day as Cathrine of Aragon.

I just love historical documentaries 😩💗

Even though Mary did do some awful things in her 5 year rein, her life was absolutely tragic and it really shows just how screwed up King Henry was with his daughters.

The "actress" baby Elizabeth is so darned cute.

It's astonishing how anyone got anything done while they attended mass 4 times/day and spent hours in private prayer.

18:11 the water isn’t moving. 😂

God almighty i have seen this under so many different titles people are just posting other peoples work.

I wonder is perhaps the reason she thought she was pregnant all those times has something to do with the theory of her death by ovarian cancer. Her ovaries would swell, likely with tumor or fluid, she would begin to have nausea, aversions to eating, and other pregnancy related symptoms. Maybe she had spent that time thinking she was finally with child, only for nothing to come of it.

England dodged a bullet when Edward VI died. He was an arrogant, single minded zealot who may have made his father seem mild in comparison. Yes, Mary's reign was bloody, but it was short and it laid the foundation for Elizabeth.

"A perfect saint, who dressed badly." 😂

Oh come now, Mary I is hardly forgotten

She's not forgotten....kids still warn, "Bloody Mary's coming!" They might not know her history, but her grisly reputation persists 600 years later.

My daughter!!!!!

Anne Boleyn played with fire and she paid the ultimate price.

i fully support all history docs and love them, but she is hardly forgotten, except by people who are not interested in history... she was spoken about with great enthusiasm by my earliest social studies teachers

Mary I was a very tragic Queen, "She was a king's daughter; she was a king's sister; she was a king's wife. She was a queen, and by the same title a king also" Bishop White of Winchester said at her funeral. Yet you have historians who praise Elizabeth as "Gloriana" but when you compare the two, no matter the length of their reigns, you can conclude that Elizabeth was more brutal in her reign. Like some other comments have said, If Elizabeth was in Mary's shoes, she wouldn't of given Lady Jane Grey a second chance, nor especially Henry Grey, her father. The only reason Elizabeth kept Mary alive for 20 years was because of her status as an anointed Queen, as if preserving Mary somehow changes Elizabeth's condemned status in the eyes of God. To be fair, the Marian Persecutions were horrendous, but does that mean we should just ignore all the abominations Elizabeth did in her reign and just call her Gloriana? No. I was too one of these people, but after doing proper research I can confidently say Elizabeth I of England was a despotic, and autocratic tyrant. If you are reading this comment and still buying in to the age's old propaganda of English Protestants, do what I did and don't succumb to the bias of all the historians who continue to sing Elizabeth's praises.

She could hardly be considered “forgotten”. If anything she is one of the more known Tudors.

Even this is not the case, it’s so profiling that the Spanish Princess are always showing as brunettes specially Catherine of Aragon when she resembles a lot like her mother Isabel of Castille, blond and blue 👀 being.

I love David Starkey’s voice. Love from Australia 🇦🇺

So glad that I have discovered this channel. No dramatization. 100% pure history very well told.

This is so well done and beautifully presented! I love royal history and you make it come alive. Thank you to all who make these compelling videos!

I love how he says yeuh. It’s been five yeuhs

You can’t post a David Starkey documentary rename it not mention him and make out it’s a new one

This documentary has given me a clearer explanation of this tumultous time in English history than I have ever had.

It's amazing to think that if little 52 day old Henry Duke of Cornwall hadn't passed, this would story would have been drastically different. And no one would be as enthralled in Henry the 8th and his line! Henry treated both of his daughters like crap and that's why Mary was as vengeful as she was.

The older I get, the more sympathy I have for Mary.

Religious zealotry is responsible for so many of history’s most horrifically brutal chapters, then and now.

You cannot judge this scenario on today's standards . The times were incredibly cruel . But there were the Saints that came forth to stand up for what they believed in .Weather it be to support the Pope or the King of England...Catholic or Protestant . It seems that the poor people of the Tudor times were compelled to do or die.

Poor Jane Grey.

Good Lord! Great show. Yet, even greater, what a gorgeous well kept lawn inside of the ruins of that shelled church! Wow!!!

David Starkey is a great historian. One of my favorites next to Lucy Worsley. Their documentaries are my favorites!

Brilliant Thank you for this enlightening post I learned much from it Also loved the music

I absolutely love Sir David Starkey’s delivery - he is by far my favourite narrator of these history programmes ❤❤❤

7:12 um, it was a bit more complicated than Katherine became fat and ugly so Henry fell for Anne boelyn.. to boil it down to a sentence like he used here is such a mischaracterization and an injustice to both Katherine and Anne, and even Henry!

Didn't realize the ol' Hapsburg jaw went back that far (century).

She is forgotten because NO ONE in Hollywood is making a SERIES About her, NO ONE in Hollywood has CREATED SEASONS for us to get to know her life FROM CHILDHOOD/HER RELATIONSHIPS-Teenagehood, INTO ADULTHOOD…./her Relationships/Family. We ALL KNOW ABOUT HENRY & ELIZABETH & OTHERS-there are COUNTLESS FILMS ABOUT THEM & others, BUT WHEN OH WHEN WILL WE GET TO SEE AN IN-DEPTH SERIES/SEASONS of QUEEN MARY-BEFORE SHE TURNED INTO what we NOW KNOW to be called ‘bloody Mary’….. 🤔 LEFT WONDERING, STILL WAITING…. It Could be SO AWESOME to ADD to a Royal Collection Xx

I am proud as a black person that I have Scottish blood running through my veins that's why I write stories regarding Queens and history.

Her phantom pregnancy had to be humiliating. I feel for her for multiple things that happened over her life, but that is probably the worst IMO

Near the Essex coast - he's standing in front of a picture and they have a fan blowing on him. Apart from that, these are great and I love this presenter.

Pisses me of that the Spanish side of her family did NOTHING!!

In England she is one of the few queens we learn about in depth. Her impact was great. Many died

Her story is so sad, the only happiness she had was when she was a child , and when she thought she found love in her husband 🙁 or even when she thought she was expecting , 😔 I mean I don’t agree with burning of people but she did have a really sad life 😔😒

It's amazing how present Monarch have not done anything to have a better burial for Queen Mary.

The actress playing Mary has the most perfect facial expressions of disgust! LOL

A great Tudor. Thanks for your insight to this queen.

Just amazing the paperwork the has been kept.

I don't have to study history... Thank you for the uploading 😁😁😁😁

I wish they would stop labeling Queen Mary as Bloody Mary she deserves Respect...and Prayers

This documentary is great. Very well done even. But I can’t get over the background vocals at 33:40 at that point the only thing I could think of in my mind was the helium choir video 😭😭😭💀

Being close to death didn’t stop her signing the warrant for the burning of two London heretics. Luckily for them it wasn’t issued for some reason, and they escaped the flames.

What about all those murdered by her father Henry (including Margaret Pole, Thomas More, John Fisher, etc.), her siblings Edward and Elizabeth, and James I? Why not Bloody Hank, Ed, Bess, and Jim? Elizabeth on her own killed more Catholics than her sister did Protestants.

1. Edward vi is the forgotten Tudor monarch, not his favorite sister Queen Mary. Mary still needs way more recognition and is somewhat unknown, but i wouldn't call her forgotten, because many people still know about her (or rather, all the lies protestants made up about her). 2. The woman on the thumbnail is not Mary I but her aunt and namesake.

Thanks for this.

My Ancestor Bishop John White was jailed because He spoke so highly of Mary at her Funeral.Elizabeth threw him in the Tower.And still researching it all,but found that to be quite a find on my dads side.The White Family and still carry the surname deriving out of London.Interesting 🙂

Today’ they should put mary with her mother Katherine queen of England

Well... maybe Mary‘s grave isn’t the best but I don’t see anyone drinking a cocktail that is named after Elisabeth 🤭

Lets tell some truth here: Mary did in fact execute (mostly by burning) just under 800 Protestants but Elizabeth executed just over 1200 Catholics and Edward about the same number and good ol' Henry VIII over 2000 Catholics including his 68 year old grand aunt. Mary was the choice of the common people, and it was the common people who rallied behind her, supplied her with artillary against the nobility, against the dukes and earls who had participated in Henry 8's dolling out of church lands to the landed nobility. The various nobles benefited hugely from the overthrow of the catholic church, the peasants just got more work to do. Its clear that the video relates only the Protestant viewpoint (as does every story ive ever seen out of England), the "official" version, a self-serving bias, clinically speaking, if ever there was one. Im not particularly being pro-Catholic here (and Catholic human rights abuses surely abound too), but I am ardently pro-truth, and this constant retelling of the tales of "Bloody Mary" are as manufactured, bigoted and biased as the anti Catholic laws that still govern England, even to this day. I surmise that its impossible to be even-handed or even truthful when the church is inextricably tied and tied-in to a part of the government. Dont know, But dont ask the Europeans.

great documentary. well done. stayed through the whole thing.

I cant believe how Henry VIII can change his love for his children just because he hate their mothers, in blink of an eye

There’s another Mary, Henry VIII’s sister. Mary, former Queen of France, Duchess of Suffolk. She’s less well known than this Mary

Nothing forgotten about Queen Mary.

I don't see how she's forgotten? in many respects, I feel more strongly for Mary than I do for the other Tudor monarchs - including her sister Elizabeth. MARY went through HELL. Disowned by her father and seeing her dear mother discarded as another woman hijacked her place as queen. Being forbidden to even meet her mother and then her own mother's sad demise must have left her feeling extremely alone and abandoned in the world. Morality back in the 16th century was extremely different to our modern understanding, so judging her with a modern lens is unfair IMO. also...Sure, she killed people in her short reign, but so did her father and so did her sister- still you never hear them called Bloody Henry or Bloody Elizabeth.

What a monster this Henri

I wonder what would have happened if Henry VIII actually had Mary executed? He had already become an outcast of sorts in Europe as other Europeans looked with bemusement and horror at his marital problems and Mary at the time was very popular in England. The English were aghast at the way that Henry had treated the very popular Queen Catherine. They would have been horrified if he had his own daughter executed and then there was Mary's powerful cousin, Emperor Charles. Would he have invaded England? Its horrifying how genuinely evil Henry had become. One thing is executing Anne, another is executing his own daughter! What an unnatural father.

Hardly forgotten! She's recognised as someone who condemned many people to death by the most hideous death imaginable! How the hell do you think she earned the name "Bloody Mary"!

Very good video the English people have always fascinated me it was my favorite subject years ago in schoolWhen the Tutors series came on TV I watched the whole thing thanks for showing us this video

It seems Mary embodied the idea that holding a grudge hurts the person with the resentment more than the object they resent!

"Mary wasn't particularly cruel, just vindictive"

18:19 caught me seriously off guard oh my gosh, what a flattering portrait

Excellent narration

“Forgotten”? She’s even got a cocktail named after her. All the Tudors were monsters, but what a fiend she was...

Omg it's fun to like give us some facts about the tudors👌👌👌👌👍👍👍😆

Rush said, "I'd like to be remembered as an innovator." These are words usually said posthumously about someone else, not words said about oneself while still living. It's like Rush was telling the world he was going to perish. Was he willing to take four others with him?

A very sympathetic look at Mary I

May God bless ✝Mary Tudor🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿☦ from a 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Tragic woman, tragic life. I feel so sorry for what she had to endure, from girlhood to queenship.

I thought I noticed Mary Tudor, daughter of King Henry VII..son of kings at the same country, the queen dowager of France later married to Charles Brandon the Duke of Suffolk, on the painting. Very interesting documentary sir, thank you.

A David Starkey documentary. Yay! Thanks for posting. 😊