So, her chief of staff Cecil hired a guy named John Foxe to rewrite history in such a way as to make Elizabeth the better woman.
The fact that laws were passed which made it illegal to print anything countering the regimes lies surely helped their effort.
People make a big deal about 280 people when Elizabeth had 900 executed over the course of nine months called the Rising of the Northern Earls. For starters.
She also hired a man, Richard Topcliffe, who worked as her personal torturer. He had a dungeon in his house and, well, sometimes people died at his hands. He would send info to the queen and there was no middleman between him and the queen. He specialized in killing priests, or at least finding them guilty and having them hung, emasculated, drawn and quartered.
Mary never ordered any deaths, but her sister ordered it all and put England into 45 years of chaos.
To add insult to injury Elizabeth in buried directly over Mary, as if the cathedral where they are buried had not enough room for two royal tombs.
Yeah, it all sticks in my craw.