Queen Mary I of England is most famous for being the eldest child who wasn't a boy of Henry VIII, and for burning around 300 Protestants at the stake. But is this all there is to her? Was she really worse than her siblings? This video looks at the early life of Mary, through to her unprecedented rule as England's first queen regnant, to see whether she really was as bloody as her nickname suggests...

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Mary Tudor: The First Queen by Linda Porter
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Children of England: The Heirs of King Henry VIII 1547-1558 by Alison Weir
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Mary Tudor: England's First Queen by Professor Anna Whitelock
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