Ancestry
Both Mary and Philip were descended from John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster, a relationship which was used to portray Philip as an English king.
Read more about this topic: Mary I Of England
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“Both the ancestry and posterity of Grief go further than the ancestry and posterity of Joy.”
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“The Democratic Party is like a mule. It has neither pride of ancestry nor hope of posterity.”
—Ignatius Donnelly (1831–1901)