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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Loong Siew, post: 2874618, member: 75799&quot;]England. The Tudors. </p><p><br /></p><p>Queen Mary I (1553-1558).</p><p><br /></p><p>Silver groat. Phillip et Maria series. </p><p><br /></p><p>Obv: Philip Z. Mara. D.G. Rex Z. Regina. </p><p><br /></p><p>Rev:&nbsp; POSVI MVS DEVM ADIVTO NOS</p><p><br /></p><p>Tower mint. Sharp portrait. </p><p><br /></p><p>The first official female regnant of England. She led a revolt against Lady Jane Grey who succeeded Mary&#039;s brother Edward VI upon his early death. </p><p><br /></p><p>Upon seizing the crown, Mary&#039;s priority was to revert her kingdom back to Catholicism after her father Henry VIII broke away from Rome. A devout Catholic her reign oversaw the Marian Persecutions where almost 300 protestants were executed or burned at the stake, thus earning her the moniker &quot;Bloody Mary&quot;. After marrying the Spanish Prince Philip, she had an unhappy marriage and Philip rarely saw her, finding her unattractive. She died at a relatively young age of 42 possibly due to uterian cancer, thus ending her dream of reestablishing Catholicism in England and passing her throne to her sister Elizabeth I.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]687869[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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