Fan Casting Mary Tudor in A Tudor Tale: Henry VIII

Mary I, also known as Mary Tudor, and as Bloody Mary by her Protestant opponents, was the Queen of England and Ireland from July 1553 and Queen of Spain as the wife of King Philip II from January 1556 until her death in 1558. Mary was the only surviving child of Henry VIII by his first wife, Catherine of Aragon. Upon her arrival in France, Mary was described as being "handsome and well favoured, were not her eyes and eyebrows too light; she is slight, rather than defective from corpulence, and conducts herself with so much grace, and has such good manners, that for her age of 18 years and she does not look more; she is a paradise."