The marriage was unpopular with the English people, but Mary was in love. He was a widower with a single son, and the age difference was nine years. She settled on her old fiancé’s son, Charles V’s son the future Philip II. She was now 37 years old but still hoped she could have a child to prevent her sister Elizabeth from becoming Queen. It was until Mary’s own ascension to the throne that she was able to think of marriage again, and this time she could choose for herself. It appears Henry didn’t really consider marrying her off again, at least until the late 1530’s.
When her father’s marriage to Anne Boleyn she was considered illegitimate and thus not as much as catch on the marriage market. Firstly to the French dauphin, Francis III of Brittany and later to her first cousin Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, who was sixteen years older than her.
Plans to marry her had begun as early as 1518. She was quoted as saying she was ‘the most unhappy lady in Christendom’. Mary herself believed she was destined for unhappiness.
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