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Henry FitzRoy: The King's Son Who Was Never Made His Heir
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.
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Henry Carey, Lord Hunsdon: The Son Henry VIII May Have Fathered
Henry VIII may have cuckolded the man who had claimed to be his father. If true then his sisters were the queens of England...
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Elizabeth "Bessie" Blount: The Dancing Partner Who Gave Henry VIII a Son
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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Elizabeth Tailboys: The Daughter Bessie Blount May Have Given Henry VIII
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.