The miscarriage of 29 January was neither Anne’s last chance nor the point at which Jane Seymour replaced Anne in Henry’s priorities.“īut that’s just me nitpicking. Anne, for her part, recovered her resilience, comforting her attendants with the assurance that she would conceive again, and that no one this time would be able to claim that her son was illegitimate. He had clearly not been poised to discard her should the pregnancy not end as he wanted.

The miscarriage was unfortunate, but it was not her “last chance.”įrom Ives: “ Henry … continued determined efforts to persuade Europe to accept Anne as his legitimate wife. He argues that there’s very little, if any, evidence that Anne’s marriage was on rocky ground even as late as April of that year. The idea that Anne’s miscarriage in January 1536 was the “final blow” in her marriage is actually a common misconception according to Eric Ives. Although his passion for Anne had been both strong and enduring … the miscarriage was the final blow in an already wavering marriage. It was the beginning of the end for Henry VIII’s second queen, for Henry was forty-five years old and desperately needed a son. On January 29, 1536, Anne Boleyn, Queen of England, miscarried a baby boy of approximately four months’ gestation. In reality, however, it revolves around the romantic woes of Minuette and the young but womanizing king and therefore utterly fails to live up to its potential.

Ostensibly, an unsolved murder lies at the heart of this alternative history tale. The main character, however, is his sister Elizabeth’s maid of honor and friend, Genevieve “Minuette” Wyatt, of whom he is enamored. Seventeen years later, her son is King Henry IX. Anne Boleyn, second wife of King Henry VIII and mother of Elizabeth I, bears a healthy son in 1536 and escapes execution.

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