Mary was born on 18 February 1516 at the Palace of Placentia in Greenwich, England.She was the only child of King Henry VIII and his first wife, Catherine of Aragon, to survive infancy.Before Mary, her mother had three miscarriages and stillbirths and one short-lived son, Henry, Duke of Cornwall. [3]Mary was baptised into the Catholic faith at the Church of the Observant Friars in …