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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 59. Chapters: Royal consorts of the Two Sicilies, Mary I of England, Julie Clary, Maria Carolina of Austria, Isabella I of Castile, Anne of Brittany, List of consorts of Naples, Maria Amalia of Saxony, Mariana of Austria, Marie Louise of Orleans, Beatrice of Provence, Maria Isabella of Spain, Mariana of Neuburg, Maria of Castile, Maria Sophie of Bavaria, Anna of Austria, Elisabeth of France, Maria Luisa of Savoy, Isabella of Portugal, List of consorts of the Two Sicilies, Maria Theresa of Austria, Queen of the Two Sicilies, Germaine of Foix, Margaret of Austria, Queen of Spain, Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel, Caroline Bonaparte, Mary of Hungary, Queen of Naples, Elisabeth of Valois, Margaret of Durazzo, Joan of Naples, Mary of Enghien, Maria Cristina of Savoy, Andrew, Duke of Calabria, Joanna of Aragon, Queen of Naples, Isabella, Duchess of Lorraine, Isabella, Princess of Taranto, James II, Count of La Marche, Otto, Duke of Brunswick-Grubenhagen, James IV of Majorca, Isabella del Balzo, Louis, Prince of Taranto, Sancha of Majorca, Margaret of Burgundy, Queen of Sicily, Mary of Lusignan, Queen of Naples. Excerpt: Mary I (18 February 1516 - 17 November 1558) was Queen regnant of England and Ireland from July 1553 until her death. She was the eldest daughter of Henry VIII and only surviving child of Catherine of Aragon. As the fourth crowned monarch of the Tudor dynasty, she is remembered for restoring England to Roman Catholicism after succeeding her short-lived Protestant half brother, Edward VI. In the process, she had almost 300 religious dissenters burned at the stake in the Marian Persecutions, earning her the sobriquet of "Bloody Mary." Her re-establishment of Roman Catholicism was reversed by her successor and half-sister, Elizabeth I. Mary was the only child of King Henry VIII of England and Ireland and his f...