who was mary's mother?
Saint Anne
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 Mary was baptised at the nearby Church of St Michael shortly after she was born . Rumours spread that she was weak and frail , but an English diplomat , Ralph Sadler , saw the infant at Linlithgow Palace in March 1543 , unwrapped by her nurse , and wrote , " it is as goodly a child as I have seen of her age , and as like to live . " 

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 Mary 's left hand is on an open prayer @-@ book , propped on a prie @-@ dieu ; the letter " D " visible on the page – perhaps for Deus tecum ( " the Lord be with you " ) , according to Ainsworth . Blum speculates the passage is from Isaiah 7 : 14 , " Behold a Virgin shall conceive and bear a son . " A vase containing white lilies and a single blue iris is next to it on the floor . 

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 Mary was weak and ill from May 1558 . In pain , possibly from ovarian cysts or uterine cancer , she died on 17 November 1558 , aged 42 , at St. James 's Palace , during an influenza epidemic that also claimed the life of Reginald Pole later the same day . She was succeeded by her half @-@ sister . Philip , who was in Brussels , wrote to his sister Joan : " I felt a reasonable regret for her death . " 

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 According to the Venetian Mario Savorgnano , Mary was developing into a pretty , well @-@ proportioned young lady with a fine complexion . 
