What was the problem between Philip and Mary?
Relationship with Mary
Parliament's view
Foreign affairs
Religion
Mary valued their relationship more than Phillip did because her love for him was one-sided
It was assumed correctly that Phillip would use England as a tool to further the Spanish Empire and have little regard for the rest of the country.
Question of how France would react if England and Spain drew so close together.
Worry about what their marriage would mean for relations with Scotland.
Phillip only paid Mary one brief visit but this was largely to persuade her to join him in waging war in France. This completely went against the marriage agreement forbidding England to help Spain in their wars in any way.
In early 1544 Sir Thomas Wyatt was preparing a protestant rebellion against Mary.
News of her marriage leaked to Wyatt (nationalist); he and others plotted to overthrow the Queen an and replace her with Edward Courtenay.
They didn't want a foreign marriage.
Gardiner was fond of Edward Courtenay as a candidate for the royal marriage.
They weren't happy with Mary's marriage to Phillip because they were both strongly Catholic, ; the pair would pose a great threat to the Protestant population of England.
In 1554 they rejected a bill that would specifically have included Phillip along with Mary in a proposed new law on treason.
In 1555, they rejected Bill in 1554 prevented Phillip's coronation as King.
The Succession Act of 1554 would make Elizabeth Mary's successor if she died childless, but Elizabeth was Protestant, so it was likely she'd move religious policy back in a Protestant direction.
Certain political groups would be excluded from power resulting in a knock-on effect on the customs of the land, negatively affecting the commons.
Phillip wasn't impressed by Mary and felt repulses by her with their 11 year age gap, he felt he was missing out.
They were worried that the Habsburgs would have too much political influence and that England would be dragged into their European wars.
Hostility between Spaniards and Englishmen after Summer.
When she experienced her first phantom pregnancy she was distraught because she found out the Phillip was enjoying mistresses from both countries.
Their marriage was out of convenience and Phillip wasn't very complacent with the priviledges he was offered.
When Mary died in November 1558, no-one was by her, not even her husband because he was in Brussels, at the time because he received news of his father's death.
Despite the marriage agreement, England was dragged into Spanish wars because of the loophole created when Phillip was enabled to aid Mary in governing the kingdom.
In March 1556, Philip persuaded Mary to support Spain in a war against France, even though the Privy Council knew the country couldn't afford it, they reluctantly agreed.
On January 13th 1558, the English garrison at Calais fell in defeat against the French force.
The loss of Calais was a humiliating blow for English government and they spent even more money to finance an army of 7,000 soldiers and 240 ships to take Brest but it was too heavily defended so they had take a smaller port, Le Conquet instead.