Queen Mary I of England, known to history as “Bloody Mary,” has long been enshrined in popular memory as one of the most ruthless monarchs to ever rule the nation.

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There was other cooking. Witches were boiled and heretics burned – most famously the Protestant martyrs roasted alive in the 1550s as Bloody Mary looked on, with her roast chicken and red wine.