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And Mary is next in line for the crown.
She will become to be known as Bloody Mary because she will unleash a war basically on everyone who has done her wrong in the court, who is mean to her mother, who sided with her father.
Like it is a crazy shakeup.
King Henry would not let the daughter see the mother ever again until they died because he was terrified of Spain taking them or them escaping in some way.
Like Mary had a really, I mean, everyone kind of had a rough go of it, but Mary really had a bad time after her dad divorced her mother.
So she's very angry.
And now she is like in complete control of the levers of power.
She brings back a lot of Catholic rituals, but doesn't go back to the Pope.
She puts back the cross and the decorations in a lot of churches, and she starts burning people at the stake.
Yeah, that's where she's known as Bloody Mary.
I think she'll burn around...
350 people during her reign, roughly.
So Dee sort of senses what's going on around him.
And he does the only sensible thing when she goes and gets himself ordained as a Catholic priest, even though he's married at the time, which you're not allowed to be.
He sort of enters seminary or does it very fast, gets ordained.
just sort of as a, please leave me alone.
I'm on your side now.