Editing Mary I of England (section)

==Death==
[[File:Tomb of Elizabeth I and Mary I.jpg|thumb|alt=Tomb of Elizabeth I and Mary I|Tomb of Elizabeth I and Mary I in [[Westminster Abbey]]]]
After Philip's visit in 1557, Mary again thought she was pregnant, with a baby due in March 1558.<ref>Porter, p. 398; Waller, pp. 106, 112; Whitelock, p. 299.</ref> She decreed in her will that her husband would be the regent during their child's minority.<ref>Whitelock, pp. 299–300.</ref> But no child was born, and Mary was forced to accept that Elizabeth would be her lawful successor.<ref>Whitelock, p. 301.</ref>

Mary was weak and ill from May 1558.<ref>Loades, p. 305; Whitelock, p. 300.</ref> In pain, possibly from [[ovarian cyst]]s or [[uterine cancer]],<ref>Waller, p. 108.</ref> she died on 17 November 1558, aged 42, at [[St James's Palace]], during an [[influenza]] epidemic that also claimed Archbishop Pole's life later that day. She was succeeded by Elizabeth. Philip, who was in Brussels, wrote to his sister [[Joanna of Austria, Princess of Portugal|Joanna]]: "I felt a reasonable regret for her death."<ref>Letter from the King of Spain to the [[Joan of Austria, Princess of Portugal|Princess of Portugal]], 4 December 1558, in ''Calendar of State Papers, Spanish'', volume XIII, quoted in Loades, p. 311; Waller, p. 109 and Whitelock, p. 303.</ref>

Although Mary's will stated that she wished to be buried next to her mother, she was [[Death and funeral of Mary I of England|interred in Westminster Abbey]] on 14 December in a tomb she eventually shared with Elizabeth. The inscription on their tomb, affixed there by [[James I of England|James I]] when he succeeded Elizabeth, is ''Regno consortes et urna, hic obdormimus Elizabetha et Maria sorores, in spe resurrectionis'' ("Consorts in realm and tomb, we sisters Elizabeth and Mary here lie down to sleep in hope of the resurrection").<ref>Porter, p. 410; Whitelock, p. 1.</ref>