The reign of Mary I is perhaps best summarized by Winston Churchill in his History of English Speaking Peoples: “The woman who now became Queen was probably the most unhappy and unsuccessful of England’s sovereigns… Mary had all the obstinacy of the Tudors and none of their political sense. She was now on the threshold of her dreams – a Catholic England united in intimate alliance with the Catholic Empire of the Hapsburgs” (257-258).
Mary was a sickly child but she was born into the prospect of one day becoming Queen. She was the first child to survive from Henry’s first wife, Catherine of Aragon. Those lofty hopes of succession were soon dashed when Henry voided his marriage to Catherine in 1533. At the time, various European princes had lined up as potential suitors for Mary, but they were immediately discarded when her mother’s marriage to Henry VIII ended…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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