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Who was bloody mary and why did she burn people

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She was the first-ever Queen of England to rule in her own right, but to her critics, Mary I of England has long been known only as “Bloody Mary.” This unfortunate nickname was thanks to her persecution of Protestant heretics, whom she burned at the stake in the hundreds.
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Answer: Bloody Mary was called Bloody Mary because her half sister, Elizabeth I, came to the throne after Mary's death, she made England Protestant again and she had burned anyone who refused to renounce their faith back to Roman Catholicism at the Stake.

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