She adored him, but he almost loathed her and made her miserable by neglect and unfaithfulness.

Her passionate hopes for a child led her to believe and announce that she was to have one, and her disappointment was correspondingly bitter.
So unpopular was the marriage coupled with the queen's religious policy, that it led to a rebellion under Sir Thomas Wyatt.

Though suppressed, it was a dangerous symptom, especially as Mary failed to profit by the warning.

Her attempts to implicate her sister Elizabeth in the charge of treason failed.
Had Mary's foreign policy only been strong it might have conciliated the patriotic pride of the ever present jingo.

But under her leadership England seemed to decline almost to its nadir.