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To: decimon

Henry had 1 orf 2 illegitimate children besides the 3 who survied childhood...Mary, Elizabetyh, Edward

His first wife, Catherine of Aragon had at least 6 children...4 of them boys

They were mostly born alive but succombed to cold etc

One healthy bonnie little boy was taken outside in a freezing January shortly after his birth to be baptised in the palace chapel...

He caught pnuemonia and died ...

Dumb Dumb Dumb Dumb things like that killed the babies and not necessarily the birth..

Anne Boleyn was pregnant at least twice...

She lost a little boy

Jane died at Edwards birth..

Anne of Cleves was never bedded...She was too “ugly” and spurned..

Catherine Howard, Anne’s cousin may have been preggers when she was beheaded...But it may have been a lovers

Katherine Parr never had any children but she was more of a nurse in Henry’s old age and bad health and not a young bed mate...

Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived


16 posted on 03/03/2011 12:58:00 PM PST by Tennessee Nana
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To: Tennessee Nana
"Catherine Parr never had any children..."

Not with Henry, but she did have one child, a daughter named Mary, with her new husband Thomas Seymour. Catherine died six days later from the same disease that claimed Jane Seymour. Thomas Seymour executed not long after, and the child was shipped off to another household. It is believed she was dead by the time she was two.

46 posted on 03/03/2011 2:12:25 PM PST by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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