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On January the 25th 1540 an unwanted Pregnancy ended with a stillborn child and a dead Mother.
Catherine Dereham, a Niece of the Duke of Norfolk that had brought great disgrace to her noble Family by eloping with a ordinary courtier at the Court of the Dowager Duchess, died by bleeding out at the birth of her first (and last) child.
Young Catherine, already pregnant, when the affair was found out, was begrudgingly married to her lover by her Family.
So with this death one less member of the huge Family of Howard was alive.
She was not missed by her Family after her so young but scandalous life.




On the 6th of June 1540 Queen Anne of England told her Husband that she missed her Courses for two months now.
Henry, who was doing the best his already enormous body could manage, by visiting his wife in bed once every week, was overjoyed and hoped for a boy. Of Course.



In the early days of August 1540 Isabel de Guimarares kissed her Husband, got out of their bed and told him she missed her Courses for two months now. She just wanted to be certain.
Her husband smiled, pulled her gently back to bed and said that to be sure they should start again to bring pleasure to each other.