Mary Tudor (/ˈtjuːdər/ TEW-dər; 18 March 1496 – 25 June 1533) was an English princess who was briefly Queen of France as the third wife of King Louis XII.

The marriage necessitated the intervention of Thomas Wolsey; Henry eventually pardoned the couple after they paid a large fine.

Through her older daughter, Frances, she was the maternal grandmother of Lady Jane Grey, the disputed queen of England for nine days in July 1553.

A privy seal bill dated from midsummer 1496 authorises a payment of 50 shillings to her nurse, Anne Skeron.

[22][23] She was accompanied to France by several English maids of honour (one of whom was Anne Boleyn)[24][25] under the supervision of her old governess Lady or "Mother" Guildford, who acted as her principal lady-in-waiting.

[29][30] But he died on 1 January 1515,[31][32] less than three months after marrying Mary,[33][34] reputedly worn out by his exertions in the bedchamber, but more likely from the effects of gout.

[38] Following Louis's death, his successor, King Francis I of France, made unsuccessful attempts to arrange a second marriage for Mary.

[4][39] Mary had been unhappy in her marriage of state to King Louis XII, as she was almost certainly already in love with Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk.

[21][40] King Henry VIII was aware of Mary's feelings; letters from her in 1515 indicated that she had agreed to wed Louis only on condition that "if she survived him, she should marry whom she liked".

[4][48][50] When King Henry VIII sent Brandon to bring Mary back to England in late January 1515, he made the Duke promise that he would not propose to her.

[54] The couple married in secret at the Hotel de Cluny in Paris on 3 March 1515 in the presence of just 10 people, among them King Francis I.

[70] Even after her second marriage, Mary was normally referred to at the English court as the Queen of France, and was not known as the Duchess of Suffolk in her lifetime,[71] despite being legally allowed to be.

[77] Though it was said to be caused by a private quarrel, he was "assured it was owing to opprobrious language uttered against Madam Anne by his Majesty's sister, the Duchess of Suffolk, Queen Dowager of France.

[79][84] The funeral procession included 100 torch bearers, clergy carrying the cross, six horses pulling the hearse, other nobility and 100 of the duke's yeomen.

[89] At the funeral, her step-daughters, Anne and Mary, pushed themselves to the head of the cortège just before the coffin was lowered into the crypt of the Abbey, much to the consternation of their half-siblings.

[91] In 1784, her remains were disinterred, her coffin opened, and locks of her hair were taken[92] by Horace Walpole, Dorothy Bentinck, Duchess of Portland, and several others.

[4] Upon her arrival in France, Mary was described as being "handsome and well favoured, were not her eyes and eyebrows too light; she is slight, rather than defective from corpulence, and conducts herself with so much grace, and has such good manners, that for her age of 18 years—and she does not look more—she is a paradise.

1 in Uffizi Gallery -labelled as Ritratto di donna(portrait of woman) 3911 F, it is a very crude sketch by Francois Clouet, who was a child when Mary was in France.