Edward VI and Mary Tudor

Clips on the difficult relationship between brother and sister.

Despite the fact that her father had made her renounce the Pope and admit that he was head of the Church of England in the autumn of 1536, Mary never abandoned her distinctly Catholic faith. Under her father conservative elements like the Catholic version of mass still remained as official doctrine and therefore Mary had less to contest. Under Edward however this changed and traditional aspects of the Church were challenged. To someone like Mary such changes were horrifying. In addition Mary questioned the legality of the actions. She explained that she could not recognise such actions as she argued that the actions were that of Edward's ministers and not of the king's. Instead her brother could only intervene in religious matters once he reached the age where he could govern alone. Until then Mary challenged the changes and carried on practising the Catholic faith. Her household which was made up of loyal Catholic families followed her actins much to the annoyance of Edward and his council.

The relationship between Mary, Edward and Elizabeth is slightly odd and like all sibling relationship had its ups and downs. During their father's reign all children got along rather well. Mary took an immense interest in her younger siblings and would send them presents and took an interest in their education. She was particularly close to Elizabeth when she was a child and was really one of the only people who took in an interest in her following Anne Boleyn's death. It was really only until Edward's reign that the three drifted apart. The reason was of course religion. Edward, a zealous Protestant was bound to clash with his elder sister, a zealous Catholic. He felt it was his duty to rebuke her and make her conform to his ways. Mary would repeat such behaviour with her sister Elizabeth; when Mary was Queen she would rebuke Elizabeth for not following the Catholic faith sincerely. Mary though had powerful relatives and her cousin Charles V, who for most of her life acted as her protector, ensured that she would be allowed to practise her faith under Edward. The English Council faced with the powerful Charles could do little to oppose this.

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[morfin51]

I just Love Mary, you have to understand where she came from, all of Henry's kids suffered a lot, Mary by her parents divorce and her catholic religion, then Elizabeth to be raised as the daughter of a whore must've been hard. Elizabeth and Edward were just english, but Mary was international, the Trastamara's where all over europe (as in the maternal last name of Mary) Spain, Portugal, Holy Roman Empire...she had many cousins, yet was so alone...

[TudorRose85]

I always feel bad for Mary and the hard life she had. A lot of the executions during her reign were done behind her back by her corrupted advisers who signed her name to the death warrents. I'm just stating the facts.

[IsobelDeBrujah]

@QueenBrendaSIV Because that's not how America works. Your religion is something that is protected as is Catholicism and Judaism and Paganism and lack of religion altogether. If you want to defend something please do look to the freedom of religion for all Americans enshrined in the constitution.

[PiperFreeze06]

@QueenBrendaSIV

I must disagree with you. Not all Catholics are evil, just as not all Evangelicals are evil.

My father was raised Lutheran and my mother was raised Catholic- my three siblings and I were raised Catholic and my dad never objected to it. It is only narrow-minded individuals that claim that all members of a single religious denomination are evil.

[KyleTiaau631]

nun bin ne sau

[CleliaJamieb269]

naa bin reich aber einsam

[QueenBrendaSIV]

@AutumnSplendors Go tell that to my fellow countrymen, to my neighbors, to my classmates, to every stranger in peru who insulted and discriminated me, my family and fellow evangelicals for being a, how did they called? "Heretic" from the true catholic church....But it doesn't matter now, I am in America, a protestant country and I will defend its evangelical tradition from every catholic here, I mean, if they wanna be catholic, why don't they go to latin america, or to the Vatican?

[QueenBrendaSIV]

@AutumnSplendors The kids and teachers made my life miserable back in Peru because I was evangelical, catholics are deeply evil ppl with rotten hearts, and they shall pay for it! I swear to God that I will murder a catholic before I die. Ever since I as born I have been the enemy of the catholic church, and so my children will be, as soon as they learn to speak I will teach them to insult and harass every catholic in the world.