aka “Mary Tudor” (or later “Bloody Mary”) played with extraordinary likeability by Shannon Taylor as the daughter of Henry VIII and his first wife, Catherine of Aragon, a Catholic.

Before pursuing Anne, Henry VIII had already had an affair with her sister, Mary. Henry showered Anne ... Henry and Anne's daughter Elizabeth (the future Queen Elizabeth I) was born in September ...

She was the elder daughter of Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk (d.1545) and his third wife Mary Tudor (d.1533), sister of King Henry VIII and widow of King Louis XII of France. She was born on 16th ...

In all she bore Henry six children, including three sons, but all of them died except for one – their daughter, Mary (later Mary I), born in 1516. Unable to produce a male heir, Catherine’s ...