The Myth of 'Bloody Mary'

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9. Mary always had to contend with her more popular, younger, smarter sister.

Elizabeth so resembled her father, where as Mary was just like her mother, in so many ways. Contemporary comparisons are never in her favor.

It's interesting that they are buried in the same tomb. The inscription is: “Partners both in throne and grave, here rest we two sisters, Elizabeth and Mary, in the hope of one resurrection.”