Hello everybody and welcome to the History of England.

Episode 274. Not to destroy, but to build.

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Anyway, for Mary, Paul's return was another proud moment everything she had wished for

and worked for so hard. On the 22nd of November 1554, she took the unprecedented step of actually

going down to Parliament in person to give her a scent to a bill, repealing the attained

a pass by her father's Parliament against Paul and his family. On the 24th of November,

she met the papal legate at Whitehall alongside her husband and her joy. Not only was she

able to greet the Pope's representative back to England, but she had confirmation that

she was pregnant. Because as Paul stepped forward and greeted her with the words, Hail

Mary, which I think qualifies as a theological gag, Mary felt her child move within her.

Once the formalities were completed in Parliament, surely all her people would return to the

true church. She would have a son and the sign of God's favour would be the restoration

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