Mary I of England

Mary was Henry VIII's only surviving child with Catherine of Aragon. When Henry annulled the marriage in 1533, she was declared illegitimate and cut from succession — restored only by act of Parliament a decade later. Her half-brother Edward VI took the throne at nine in 1547 and pushed England further Protestant. Dying at fifteen in 1553, he tried to skip over Mary entirely, and politicians briefly proclaimed their cousin Lady Jane Grey queen instead. Mary raised a force in East Anglia and deposed Jane within days, becoming England's first undisputed queen regnant. She married Philip of Spain…