Queen Mary I

She was the only surviving child of King Henry VIII and his first wife Queen Catherine of Aragon. Born at Greenwich Palace on 18 February 1516, she had to see her father breaking with the Roman Catholic Church, and when his marriage with her mother was annulled, she was banned from court as a bastard. After King Henry´s second wife was executed, Mary returned to grow up and live together with her half-sister Elizabeth and later her half-brother Edward, but her strong Catholic Faith stood in extreme contrast to the Anglican Protestant church her father had established in England. She became Queen after her brother´s death in 1553 and started to restore the old order under the Roman church. She married Prince Philip of Spain on 25 July 1554, but he remained in England for just a short time. They remained childless, which threatened the Catholic succession, as her Protestant half-sister Elizabeth (always more popular than Queen Mary), would follow her. Many Protestants (priests and regular people as well) were executed when they didn´t want to return to the Catholic Faith. Queen Mary, who suffered under the same bad health as her brother Edward and her father in his later years, died on 17 November 1558 at St. James´s Palace.

Here´s her signature on a document (1553).