Mary, Mary, quite contrary...
Many nursery rhythms have grim origins. I didn't know this one, I came across it whilst reading about Queen Mary 1. She's 'contrary' because she overturned her father's Protestant state, and reverted to Roman Catholicism. She began a merciless persecution of Protestants...for which she became knows as 'Bloody Mary.' The 'gardens' in the rhyme refers to the many cemeteries she needed to bury the dead.
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Lewis Cooper
Self taught. Love drawing. Like to make pictures up, without using reference pics, often in cartoon style. I do other pictures where I do use reference. I'm knocking on a bit, born in 1940 in Greenwich, London. Retired, and loving it.
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