Sign in or Queen Mary I - Historical profile | INTERESTING
FACTS: | - She was an accomplished & talented musician excelled
at the spinet and virginals,like her father Henry,also Mary
taught Elizabeth how to play the lute and virginals. - Mary was
given the best tutors and studied the works of leading scholars:
Linacre, William Lily, Sir Thomas More, Erasmus of Rotterdam,
and the Spanish humanist, Vives. She spoke Latin, French,
Spanish and understood Italian. She learned the basic skills of
riding side-saddle, sewing and embroidery - During Mary's
childhood, various husbands were proposed for her, including the
eldest son of Francis I of France (1518), the Holy Roman Emperor
Charles V (1522), Francis I himself (1527) and even her father's
illegitimate son, Henry Fitzroy which was strangely sanctioned
by the Pope. - In 1525 she was given a separate household as the
Princess of Wales, but in 1527, Henry began negotiations for a
divorce from her mother Queen Katherine of Aragon, and Mary,
remaining loyal to her