Team Mary & Team Elizabeth: Similarities & Differences

Mary & Elizabeth's similarities and differences Both sisters had a lot of things happen to them that made them understand each other more in a negative and positive light: This created similarities and differences between the two outstanding women, can you list them all?

Similarities
Picture showing simillarity	Explanation for Similarity
	Mary and Elizabeth both were illegitimated because of Henry's decision to end his marriages to their mothers.
	Both had loving and dedicated mothers.
	Both were the daughters of Henry VIII.
	Both became first and second Queen regnants of England.
	Both had Jane Seymour, Anne of Cleves, Kathryn Howard and Catherine Parr as Stepmothers.
	Despite the series that shows Mary as a brunette and Elizabeth as a blond (S2), the real princesses were known for their "tudor mark" the red hair of their father. But Mary dyed her hair various colours during her adult life.
	Mary and Elizabeth, like humanist princess, were very intelligent;they were multilingual, amazons, students,and talented musicians.
	Both had to execute their own cousins to save their crown, they were very sad for it. Mary executed lady Jane Grey and Elizabeth executed Queen Mary Stuart that was Scotland's Queen.
	Both deaths were celebrated and were joyous occasions. Mary's death was celebrated after all the marian persections and the loss of calais and Elizabeth's last years of reign were in decadence,the people who wished a "new force" and youthful king celebrated her death as well. Although after around 20 years of her death people started to 'miss" her, and the myth of the "good queen bess" start to be shaped. In Marys case only around the 70's of this century Mary's reign was re-studed (and still is) and the myth of the bloody Mary starts to break.
	Mary and Elizabeth were "fashionistas" They were also remembered for their high sense of style. Marian style:Norfolk,Mary Fitzlan in an early dress and Queen Mary in a late marian dress. Elizabethan style: unkown man(maybe Philip of spain),queen Elizabeth in a ealry dress and unkown lady in a late elizabethan dress.
	Around the"end"of their reign and life, they were very melancholic. Mary's last days,she said that her jester was the only person to make her laugh and no one else,and maybe Elizabeth'loss of her friends shaped this stage in her life
	Both women never had children.
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Differences
Mary's Instance	Picture showing Difference	Elizabeth's Instance
Mary was a devoted catholic queen.		Elizabeth was a protestant queen.
Mary got married. She married Phillip I of spain after falling for him after seeing his potrait .		Elizabeth never got married, but used her single status to help form alliances.