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Mary Tudor Sails for France: Queen of France, Then the Husband She Chose
Henry had invaded France the year before. Now he was sending his 18-year-old sister to marry its 52-year-old king. She arrived soaking wet.
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Claude of France, "the Good Queen": Death at Blois, 20 July 1524
She died at the Château de Blois on 20 July 1524. Her frail body finally broken by the physical toll of delivering seven children in less than eight years. She was twenty-four years old.
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Claude of France: Betrothed at Six, Dead at Twenty-Four
She was betrothed at six. Married at fourteen. Pregnant at fifteen. Dead at twenty-four. In the nine years between her wedding and her death she was pregnant for the majority of them. Nobody asked her about any of it.
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The Field of the Cloth of Gold, June 1520: Catherine of Aragon and Claude of France
In June 1520 Henry VIII built a palace out of wood and canvas, filled a fountain with wine, and invited the King of France to watch him joust. It cost England nearly half the crown's annual revenue. The fountain ran dry. The cloth of gold was packed away and sold.