The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn | 
AMONG the relics of Henry VIII‘s daughter Mary is a book of prayers where the page devoted to intercessions for women with child is said to be stained with tears. In the later twentieth century the problem of childlessness attracts considerable attention in the Western world, but no pressure on the would-be mother today can match the peculiar strain on a sixteenth-century queen.
Sophronisba Obviously I get that she was terrible and had a lot of people murdered just because they didn't want to pray the way she did. But still. The accounts of her phantom pregnancies are just devastating to read. 2y
Suet624 I can only imagine. 2y
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