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Duke of York
For King Henry VIII the year 1543 ended fantastic.
His dear wife had enough of his massive weight atop of her after her successful pregnancy and the joyous birth and begged and pleaded him to lose some weight.
She admonished him to think of his son, his heir that needed a strong father, to learn from him as only he, the King could teach his son everything he would need to know about ruling a mighty Country like England.
Good Queen Anne might still not have a perfect knowledge of the English language but she knows how to sound sincere in her concern for her husband, when in reality she was just tired of having to bear with his massive, smelling body atop of her own.
So she send her brother a message, that she needed a good Doctor that was not afraid of difficult Patients and had solid knowledge of how to make sluggish people loose weight.
She wrote him that she needed a Doctor from outside of England, because all the English ones were deeply afraid of their King.
So, in early 1542, a German Doctor arrived at the Court of King Henry, with best regards from his Brother-in-Law, William Duke of Julich-Cleves-Berg and the most humble request, that his Majesty make use of this earnest and talented man, so that his Majesty will rule healthy for many more years.
Henry tried his best, really he did.
He sometimes even followed the orders of the Doctors to eat way less.
And from March 1542 to March 1543 he managed to loose so much weight, that he needed tighter clothes and the Doctor even managed to get his awfully stinking leg wounds to stop leaking puss all the time and to stink no more.
Queen Anne was relieved and Henry's Mistress was it too.
And so, ending April 1543, Queen Anne found herself once again missing her Courses.
The Duke of York was born as a Christmas child.
Henry really felt that God was trying to tell him something.
He named his second living son Alfred Henry.
We all know Henry, it is just how he feels.
His sons were born to do great things in the future.
His dear wife had enough of his massive weight atop of her after her successful pregnancy and the joyous birth and begged and pleaded him to lose some weight.
She admonished him to think of his son, his heir that needed a strong father, to learn from him as only he, the King could teach his son everything he would need to know about ruling a mighty Country like England.
Good Queen Anne might still not have a perfect knowledge of the English language but she knows how to sound sincere in her concern for her husband, when in reality she was just tired of having to bear with his massive, smelling body atop of her own.
So she send her brother a message, that she needed a good Doctor that was not afraid of difficult Patients and had solid knowledge of how to make sluggish people loose weight.
She wrote him that she needed a Doctor from outside of England, because all the English ones were deeply afraid of their King.
So, in early 1542, a German Doctor arrived at the Court of King Henry, with best regards from his Brother-in-Law, William Duke of Julich-Cleves-Berg and the most humble request, that his Majesty make use of this earnest and talented man, so that his Majesty will rule healthy for many more years.
Henry tried his best, really he did.
He sometimes even followed the orders of the Doctors to eat way less.
And from March 1542 to March 1543 he managed to loose so much weight, that he needed tighter clothes and the Doctor even managed to get his awfully stinking leg wounds to stop leaking puss all the time and to stink no more.
Queen Anne was relieved and Henry's Mistress was it too.
And so, ending April 1543, Queen Anne found herself once again missing her Courses.
The Duke of York was born as a Christmas child.
Henry really felt that God was trying to tell him something.
He named his second living son Alfred Henry.
We all know Henry, it is just how he feels.
His sons were born to do great things in the future.
- kaiidth
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