Born
on
February
18th
,
1516
,
Mary
was
the
____________________
child
of
King
Henry
VIII
,
as
well
as
the
only
surviving
child
of
his
marriage
to
Catherine
of
____________________
,
and
thus
was
pronounced
heir
apparent
to
her
father
?
s
throne
.
During
Mary
?
s
childhood
she
received
an
education
which
was
heavily
influenced
by
the
____________________
religion
that
would
have
a
significant
impact
on
Mary
throughout
the
rest
of
her
life
.
Initially
close
with
both
of
her
parents
,
Mary
?
s
relationship
with
her
father
began
to
strain
when
his
desire
for
a
____________________
heir
increased
,
his
open
rejection
of
her
mother
became
more
obvious
,
and
his
infatuation
with
Anne
Boleyn
intensified
.
The
year
1531
,
when
Mary
was
fifteen
,
marked
a
turning
point
in
Mary
?
s
life
when
Henry
forbade
her
to
see
her
mother
.
Henry
later
broke
away
from
the
Catholic
Church
in
order
to
____________________
Catherine
and
marry
Anne
.
Henry
quickly
established
the
Church
of
____________________
with
himself
as
the
____________________
head
.
Mary
was
declared
____________________
and
was
replaced
as
heir
apparent
by
Henry
and
Anne
?
s
daughter
,
____________________
;
she
was
furthermore
banished
from
court
.
Having
been
stripped
of
her
title
of
princess
,
Mary
was
denied
any
communication
or
meetings
with
her
mother
.
Mary
and
Catherine
were
able
to
send
secret
messages
to
each
other
through
the
help
of
loyal
servants
and
physicians
.
In
her
letters
,
Catherine
stressed
that
Mary
listen
to
her
father
?
s
commands
,
but
to
uphold
the
Catholic
____________________
.
Mary
heavily
relied
on
her
Catholic
faith
to
emotionally
get
her
through
that
critical
time
.
During
this
time
,
Mary
publicly
refused
to
recognize
her
father
?
s
marriage
to
Anne
,
her
own
legalized
illegitimacy
and
his
claim
to
be
head
of
the
Church
of
England
.
When
the
Act
of
____________________
was
issued
in
1534
,
Mary
refused
to
take
the
oath
the
document
required
.
This
legally
meant
that
her
refusal
was
a
sign
of
____________________
.
Although
she
could
have
been
arrested
,
charged
and
possibly
executed
,
Henry
refused
out
of
compassion
for
his
daughter
.
Catherine
would
eventually
succumb
to
her
years
of
illness
and
die
on
January
7th
,
1536
.
Mary
was
described
as
?
inconsolable
?
at
the
loss
of
her
beloved
mother
.
Mary
also
realized
that
she
was
in
more
danger
now
that
Henry
?
s
pregnant
wife
,
Anne
,
was
officially
recognized
as
the
sole
____________________
of
England
,
and
that
if
their
child
was
a
son
,
then
he
would
be
recognized
as
the
____________________
heir
to
the
throne
.
However
,
this
would
not
be
the
case
;
Anne
soon
suffered
a
miscarriage
,
and
swiftly
fell
from
the
King
?
s
good
grace
,
before
eventually
being
____________________
in
May
of
1536
.
Despite
the
turn
of
events
,
Mary
,
now
twenty
,
was
able
to
reestablish
a
relationship
with
her
father
after
he
married
Jane
Seymour
in
1536
.
Mary
?
s
return
to
favor
was
also
based
on
her
____________________
of
the
Church
of
England
and
her
own
illegitimacy
.
Following
the
execution
of
Anne
Boleyn
,
Mary
recognized
that
her
position
was
still
not
secure
and
would
ultimately
need
to
reconnect
with
her
father
in
order
to
obtain
any
form
of
political
standing
.
Her
father
repeatedly
demanded
her
to
take
the
oath
recognizing
him
as
the
supreme
head
of
the
Church
of
England
.
Faced
with
no
other
alternative
,
Mary
accepted
her
father
?
s
demands
and
was
officially
____________________
.
In
a
letter
to
her
father
Mary
accepted
her
father
?
s
authority
as
the
leader
of
the
Church
of
England
,
as
well
as
the
illegality
of
her
parents
?
____________________
:
?
I
do
freely
,
frankly
and
for
the
discharge
of
my
duty
towards
God
,
the
king
?
s
highness
and
his
laws
,
without
other
respect
,
recognize
and
acknowledge
that
the
marriage
formerly
had
between
his
majesty
and
my
mother
,
the
late
princess
dowager
,
was
by
God
?
s
law
and
man
?
s
law
incestuous
and
unlawful
.
?
Henry
also
required
that
Mary
write
a
letter
to
the
Pope
and
Charles
V
confirming
that
her
acceptance
of
Henry
?
s
decree
was
genuine
,
and
she
complied
.
Her
close
confidant
,
Chapuys
,
also
wrote
a
letter
to
Charles
explaining
the
strategy
of
Mary
?
s
acceptance
;
in
return
Charles
would
inform
the
Pope
that
she
swore
out
of
necessity
for
her
life
,
but
her
____________________
was
still
Catholic
.
Following
the
birth
of
Henry
and
Jane
?
s
son
,
Edward
,
Mary
began
to
accept
the
fact
that
she
was
not
next
in
____________________
to
the
throne
.
After
successfully
recreating
a
relationship
with
her
father
,
Mary
was
reinstated
in
the
line
of
____________________
in
1544
,
with
Edward
being
first
in
line
,
her
being
second
,
and
Elizabeth
third
.
This
was
reaffirmed
in
Henry
?
s
will
shortly
before
his
death
in
1547
.
