Basically, it was all male interviewees who all agreed that Mary was cruel and unjust. And they got some of the most basic facts wrong.
Here's a couple of things they claimed:
1. Elizabeth was Mary's step-sister.
2. Henry VIII had a son with his fourth wife, Jane seymour.
3. Mary was 34 years old when her father died.
First of all, Mary and Elizabeth were half-sisters. Henry VIII had a son with his Third wife, Jane Seymour. And Henry VIII died in January 1548, making Mary just a couple of weeks shy of her 30th birthday.
They basically said that Mary was fanatical about her religion as if it made her a monster. I'm not saying that she had to kill so many people for their beliefs - I honestly think that it was rediculous how people were fighting over how to worship God when the important thing was that they all believed in him - but Elizabeth sent thousands of Catholics to their deaths during her reign, and Henry VIII had some of his closest friends and confidants executed when they didn't give him what he wanted. Yet Mary was the monster!
They didn't seem to show any sympathy towards Mary at all, and that was just watching 10 minutes of the thing.
They completely disregarded the fact that Mary herself was a victim, even under her younger brother's reign.
I just wanted to get this off my chest, that documentary really made me mad, and it's tragic that a woman who had been disgarded and treated as an abomination because of her gender has become such a hated figure in history, when her father was the monster responsible for so much of her pain.
She was stripped of her title as Princess, called a bastard, not allowed to see her mother, who she then lost and her father didn't seem to care. In the end, her religion was the only thing she had left that no one could take away from her, and she was vilified for it
