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# Bloody Mary: Her earliest portrait
- URL: https://www.cascadepbs.org/show/lucy-worsley-investigates/extras/bloody-mary-her-earliest-portrait-ngd8gk/
- Published: 2025-01-08T21:15:50.000Z
- Updated: 2025-08-21T09:53:08.000Z
- Description: A rare glimpse of Mary as a child from 1552. There's no sign of "Bloody Mary" here?
- Author: Cascade PBS Staff
- Tags: Lucy Worsley Investigates, #ZZZ_Show_0b2bbcaa-8f90-4c5f-b3e4-f63c330d09fb, #geo-us, #v1.7, #ZZZ_Extra_c6f806c7-7478-4210-8bf4-b7432a6a5943, #extra

Was England's first ruling queen a pioneer or a tyrant? Lucy investigates whether Mary I was really as "bloody" as history suggests or was she the victim of a smear campaign for being the first women in a man's world?