Could the Reformation have been successfully reversed by Queen Mary I in England had she lived longer
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Yes, because... Mary I was quite popular.
Her accession was greeted with Te Deums and celebrations not only in those areas where Catholicism continued in strength like the North or West but also far more protestant London or Grantham[1] The restoration of Civic and Church festivities suppressed by Edward VI was popular, at the Parish level Catholicism recovered fast, for example recruitment for priests/vicars which had slumped in Edward's reign revived[2]
No-one could fail to notice that festivities had stopped and alters smashed and that these had not resulted in the sky falling in or the world ending, a new skepticism had been created that was essentially impossible to remove.