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Upon his death, leading politicians proclaimed Mary's and Edward's Protestant cousin, Lady Jane Grey, as queen instead. Mary speedily assembled a force in East Anglia and deposed Jane, who was eventually beheaded. Mary was—excluding the disputed reigns of Jane and the Empress Matilda—the first queen regnant of England.
The coronation of Mary I as Queen of England and Ireland took place at Westminster Abbey, London, on Sunday 1 October 1553. This was the first coronation of a queen regnant in England, a female ruler in her own right. [1] The ceremony was therefore transformed. Ritual and costume were interlinked.
The Funeral of Queen Mary the First, First Look (Beyond Shakespeare Exploring Session) Historians discuss the pageantry of the funeral; Mary I: Westminster Abbey; Mariana Brockmann, "Mischievous Marys: Rituals of Queenship in Sixteenth-century England and Scotland", PhD thesis, Royal Holloway University of London, 2017, chapter 4
Mary: Queen Scotland: 14 December 1542 24 July 1567 24 years, 222 days Jane: Queen (disputed) England: 10 July 1553 19 July 1553 9 days [119] Ireland: Mary I: Queen England: 24 July 1553 17 November 1558 5 years, 116 days Ireland: Elizabeth I: Queen England: 17 November 1558 24 March 1603 44 years, 127 days Ireland: Mary II: Queen England: 13 ...
There was some opposition in England to the new Queen marrying a foreign prince. A Spanish chronicle refers to the xenophobic beliefs of the English people, and Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle, Bishop of Arras (who had obtained the oil used to anoint Mary at her coronation) wrote that the English would only accept the marriage with the greatest difficulty.
Despite the tragedy that could have distanced them, Elizabeth's feelings for Dudley were still strong and she tried to marry him off to her half-sister, Mary, Queen of Scots (a plotline in the ...
The huge diamond is steeped in history and controversy over how it came to be in the possession of British royalty
The Bill of Rights 1689 established that, whichever of the joint monarchs, William III and Mary II, died first, the other would reign alone. As Mary II died first, on 28 December 1694, William III became sole remaining monarch. On the day of Mary's death, the line of succession to the English and Scottish thrones was: