Mary was the fifth child of Henry VII of England and Elizabeth of York, and the youngest to survive infancy. She was the third wife of French King Louis XII. Following Louis’s death, Mary married Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk, secretly in France, the marriage occurred without the consent of Mary’s brother Henry VIII. Henry eventually pardoned the couple after they paid a large fine. Mary had four children with Suffolk. Through her older daughter, Frances, she was the maternal grandmother of Lady Jane Grey, the de facto queen of England for nine days in July 1553.
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