Mary I to James I

Mary I returned England to Roman Catholicism with much bloodshed, but her half-sister Elizabeth restored the Protestant Reformation in defiance of the Armada sent by Mary’s widower Philip of Spain in 1588, and the murderous conspiracies of her cousin Mary, Queen of Scots. But Elizabeth had no children, and her cousin Mary’s son succeeded her as James I in 1603.

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