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Kell’s belles ping.
Who is paying for this junk science ?
I LOVE watching the Tudors on netflix.
Don’t know if diet played any part in it but all he mostly ate was red meat. I mean lots of it. I enjoy a steak and a burger every now and then but this guy was over the top.
interesting!
There is also a thoery about Anne Boleyn’s miscarriages that I think is interesting. The theory is that after she delivered Elizabeth, she developed problems with the Rh factor.
Furthermore, I read a report (the name and identity of which I cannot remember) that indicated that some low testosterone men have adrenalyn surges--are feisty and aggressive--apparent due to absence of the odd calming affect of normal T levels.
Thanks for posting this!
There is a very interesting documentary called Royal Deaths and Diseases. It’s hard to find, and I don’t think it was ever out on DVD. I’d buy it in a minute if it was.
Each segment dealt with another kind of royal disease, and one of them was pregnancy and childbirth. It was fascinating. In that segment they stated that they believed the royal wives were totally sequestered in chambers and basically fed crackers and wine. This was because of the belief that a woman could “mark” the child with her fears and upsets.
It was very well researched, and had lots of original notes and texts from the doctors. They did fatal wounds, madness, genetics, etc.
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
He could have also had a multitude of venereal diseases that impaired the mistresses/wives, causing miscarriages and stillborn births. Some speculate the same with John Kennedy;i.e., he gave Jackie diseases that caused her to miscarry and give birth to weak babies.
Fascinating - thanks.
Could blood group anomaly explain Tudor king’s reproductive problems and tyrannical behavior?
I don’t know about “blood group anomaly” but rampaging syphilis certainly could explain his behavior.
People were executed all the time back then. The first guy to translate the Bible into English was executed in Belgium. It seems it was always best not to p*ss off the authorities.
ML/NJ
This is very interesting to me. I am doing my geneology and found that Henry VIII is my 12th great-grand uncle. I am descended from Henry’s mother and one of her children of her first marriage to another man before she married King Edward, Henry’s father. She is my 13th great-grandmother.
Ping, for your interest.