Mary I: What if She'd Lived?
Not Just the Tudors
History Hit
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 23 November 2023
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
On 17 November 1558, Queen Mary I died. But how would history have turned out differently if Mary had lived another 30 years? Where would her Roman-Catholicism taken England? Would Mary have patched up relations between England and the rest of Europe?
In this counterfactual special to end her Tudor Dynasty series, Professor Suzannah Lipscomb asks a panel of experts to speculate on the reign that might have been. Suzannah is joined by Dr. Gonzalo Velasco Berenguer, Prof. Alexander Samson and Prof. Anna Whitelock.
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| 0:50.0 | This episode is the last of our miniseries on the Tudor dynasty. Mary the first became Queen of England in July 1553. |
| 1:09.0 | She restored the English Church to Rome. |
| 1:12.0 | She married Philip II of Spain and she persecuted |
| 1:15.2 | Protestant heretics. But five years after her accession this daughter of |
| 1:21.4 | Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon died. |
| 1:25.0 | But what if she didn't? |
| 1:27.0 | What if we were able to give her another 30 years? |
| 1:31.0 | How might the history of this country be different? |
| 1:35.0 | To indulge me in this piece of historical speculation, |
| 1:39.0 | I'm joined for this special episode of not just the Tudors |
| 1:42.0 | by a panel of leading Marion historians. |
| 1:46.1 | Professor Anna Whitlock of City University is a leading expert on Tudor Queenship. |
| 1:51.6 | Professor Alexander Sampson of University College London |
| 1:54.4 | has written extensively on Mary's marriage to Philip II of Spain. |
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