Lost in a Rhyme Queen Mary’s Reign

By Holley Wilkes

Lost in a RhymeQueen Mary’s Reign

By Holley Wilkes

Queen Mary was given the morbid name

Bloody Mary as a consequence of her

actions. The daughter of King Henry VIII had a

reputation quite commonly known among

her associates as having a contrary nature.

Morbid telling’s of how queen Mary, so devoted

to her Catholic faith and how she does

everything to uphold her religion. As someone

living in her country, your faith was chosen by

her to be Catholic. Her hypothetical gardens referred to the graveyards horrifically increasingly

growing in size filled with the bodies of those

who dared to practise the Protestant faith.

With tortured souls to spill secrets she

intended to destroy the Protestant faith.

Silver bells were instruments of

torture believed to be thumb screws

and these crushed the thumbs between

two hard surfaces and cockleshells were believed to be instruments of torture

which were attached to the genitals.

Mary wished to control the Protestant’s

and a far from pretty method was

beheading. Guillotine’s were first known

as maids, understandably victim’s

unwillingness to die meant nearly all

were chased in and around the

scaffold, then finally hacked at by the

executioner. This called for a mechanical

invention, Mary then ordered the

building of guillotines row upon row.

I felt the truth and blood in nursery rhymes would intrigue you reader. Origins and theories are written in history about royal plots, battle truths and religion. Such innocent characters in children’s rhymes uncovered, but in the end it’s your choice what you choose to believe, I am merely stating my findings...