text: Mary I & Mary the First Quotes (31 quotes)
  Mary I & Mary the First
  ★ Mary I & Mary the First
  Mary I & Mary the First (r 1553-1558): see Elizabeth I & Henry VIII & Catholicism & Protestantism & England & Monarchy
  Simon Schama TV - Helen Castor TV - Lucy Worsley TV - David Starkey TV -
  30,305. And so England's first female ruler since Queen Matilda ascended the throne with just two aims in mind: to return England to its obedience to Rome and to produce a Catholic male heir to keep it that way. (Great Britain & England & Mary) Simon Schama, A History of Britain: Burning Convictions, BBC 2000
  30,670. In 1553 the only heirs to the Tudor throne were female. The next three monarchs of England would be women. (England & Mary I & Jane Grey) Dr Helen Castor, She-Wolves: England's Early Queens III: Jane, Mary and Elizabeth, BBC 2012
  30,944. She [Mary] prosecuted protestants with such vigour that it's tainted her reputation ever since. (England & Mary) Dr Lucy Worsley, Fit to Rule: How Royal Illness Changed History I, BBC 2013
  30,945. Mary is one of history's losers. (England & Mary) ibid.
  112,899. For Mary was Edward's legal heir: she would succeed as queen and supreme head. (Monarchy & England & Mary) Monarchy by David Starkey s2e3: The Shadow of a King, Channel 4 2005
  112,900. With her pregnancy exposed as a delusion power started to ebb away from the queen. (Monarchy & England & Mary) ibid.