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Elizabeth "Bessie" Blount was born around 1498 or 1500 at Kinlet in Shropshire, the daughter of Sir John Blount of Kinlet and Katherine Peshall, the eldest daughter of a well-connected gentry family in the Welsh Marches, and she arrived at the court of Henry VIII in 1512 or 1513 at approximately twelve years old as a maid of honour to Catherine of Aragon.
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Bessie Blount gave Henry VIII a son. He gave the boy a dukedom and a name that meant son of the king. A year later she may have given him a daughter. He gave her nothing.
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On 15 June 1519, Henry VIII finally got the son his marriage had not produced. The boy was healthy. The mother was not his queen.