A Passionate Love for Bloody Mary

Lady Mary Tudor, Electress of Palatine
A Passionate Love
On 1539, the 23 year old heiress of Henry VIII, Lady Mary would passionately fall in love with Philip of Palatinate who had been courting her and she would be in crossroads whether to accept to give up her own succession rights and marry for love, she was introduced to Philip of Palatinate by her own stepmother, Anne of Cleves and the love affair would be passionate for a month and in the middle of 1539 she would choose her own mother’s memory or marrying her husband..
Mary had to choose whether she would marry Philip of Palatinate or remain protesting for her own mother, Catherine of Aragon, this would drag in months until one day in 1539, Mary Tudor had the courage to visit her own mother’s grave and prayed to god whether it would be good for her to marry a heretic and give up her own inheritance she would pray seriously in the church.
She would have a dream of Catherine of Aragon, her own mother who was sad about her divorce with her bride and she would tell that she herself feels miserable over her parent’s divorce and did not like her father’s attitude and the man that she falls in love is a good option, her mother would smile and comfort her daughter in her dream.
A realization would come up to her and it would be that her mother would be happy if she is happy and that she should marry Philip.
She felt that her happiness is important and her mother would be happy for her to be happy and on the latter part of 1539, she would sign a document to her father in order to renounce her own succession to her father’s throne so that she would marry her love, Philip of Palatinate, this passionate love would lead her to Bavaria and marry Philip of Palatinate on January of 1540 in England before their departure, it was found out that she is pregnant on 1540 and gave birth to a daughter named Catherine of Palatinate on November 10, 1540, months after her own arrival in Bavaria, the daughter is named after her own mother, Catherine of Aragon, this would be followed by another daughter named Elizabeth of Palatinate on May 10, 1543, named after her grandmother, Isabella the Catholic, which would not be followed by another child and she would be widowed on 1548 when her first husband died.