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出自BBC記錄片《英國史》第7集《女王的誕生》。

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The reason was obvious. Mary was a Catholic and a Catholic Church did not recognise Elizabeth's right to be Queen of England.

原因很明顯：瑪麗是天主教徒而且天主教堂并不承認伊麗莎白的英格蘭女王身份。

To them, she was a product of Henry VIII's illegal marriage to Anne Boleyn. In Mary's Catholic eyes, then, Elizabeth was simply illegitimate. How could Elizabeth not take this personally?

對他們而言，她不過是亨利八世與安妮·博林非法婚姻的產物，那么從瑪麗天主教徒的眼光看來，伊麗莎白也是個私生子。伊麗莎白怎能對此不予介懷？

What's more, Mary was not only a Stuart, she was also a Tudor through her great grandfather, Henry VII.

而且，瑪麗不僅僅有著斯圖亞特王室血統，她從曾祖父亨利七世那里也繼承了都鐸王室血統。

And so long as Elizabeth was childless, Mary was next in line to the English throne.

只要伊麗莎白沒有子嗣，瑪麗就是她的王位的第一候選人。