Commentary
Mary Tudor was born in 1516, the only child of Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon to survive. She was considered a princess and heir to the throne until her father divorced her mother (essentially for failure to provide a male heir) and married Anne Boleyn. Mary was stripped of her title, deemed legally a bastard, and forced to wait upon her half-sister Elizabeth, the child of the Boleyn marriage, and her half-brother Edward, the product of her father’s third marriage.
