The Execution of Anne Boleyn. A clip from the 2023 documentary ‘Anne Boleyn: A Queen Condemned’. | Dr Owen Emmerson - Historian

Her name was Mary Tudor… but history remembers her as “Bloody Mary.” Mary was the daughter of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon. When her father broke from the Catholic Church to marry Anne Boleyn, Mary’s life fell apart. She was stripped of her royal title, declared illegitimate, and pushed aside. But when her younger brother King Edward VI died, Mary claimed the throne. She was determined to restore England to Catholicism — and she would do it by force. She ordered the burning of Protestant l