Bloody Mary
Lucy investigates whether England’s first ruling female monarch was as bloody as history suggests.
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S2 E4 - 30s
Lucy investigates whether England’s first ruling female monarch was as bloody as history suggests.
Bloody Mary: Her earliest portrait
S2 E4 - 4m 5s
Was England's first ruling queen a pioneer or a tyrant? Lucy investigates whether Mary I was really as "bloody" as history suggests or was she the victim of a smear campaign for being the first women in a man's world?
Bloody Mary: The first woman to be crowned Queen
S2 E4 - 2m 55s
Mary had a very difficult line to tread as the first queen; she had to blur the genders, but what she did set the pattern for all the queens to follow. Lucy investigates if the real Queen Mary has been lost to history. She is now reduced to a mere two words "Bloody Mary," but was she the victim of a smear campaign because she was the first women in a man's world?
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