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 | | Mary, queen of England, led persecutions of Protestants in her country and waged war on France until her death enthroned her sister Elizabeth, who redirected... |
 | | Mary I, Mary Tudor (February 18, 1516- November 17, 1558) was Queen of England (reigned July 19, 1553 - November 17, 1558) was born in the royal Palace of Placentia in Greenwich, London, the daughter of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon, the only one from that union to survive infancy. |
 | | Many scholars trace the nursery rhyme "Mary, Mary, quite contrary" to her unpopular attempts to bring Roman Catholicism back to England, identfying the "cockle shells", for example, with the symbol of pilgrimage to the shrine of Saint James in Spain and the "pretty maids all in a row" with nuns. |
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