An Imperial Match: Anne Boleyn marries Charles V
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Hopefuly. I'm somewhat sympathetic to Juana's plight, and the fact that João loves Leonor a lot more than Felipe ever loved Juana helps. And that she isn't a woman in power that has men around her wanting to take said power for themselves through the use of a smear campaign. There isn't really a reason to suggest she is mad, since that would mean people might assume her children, aka the heirs to Portugal are much of the same.
That is true. She is in a much less stressful situation and has a better support system. Hopefully João can bring her back from the brink
I don't think she is on the brink. I think she is just suffering from a lot of mental anguish after losing her baby, and remembering that of the eight children she gave birth to, only five are still living (and she also had a stillbirth between Filipe and Margarida, is worth to remember).
Poor Leonor just wants her babies to be alive and my heart broke when she saw Maria alive again. Its such a misconception that the death of their babies back then didn't hurt because it was frequent, just because it was more frequent than it is today doesn't mean it didn't shatter these people's hearts to lose their babies. Wonder if João seeing what the loss of their children does to his wife decides since he has 2 living sons she doesn't need to keep having kids because I feel like if she loses one more of her children, she may fall ill and die or end up like her mother after the death of Philip.
Oh no, poor Leonor, you wrote this splendidly, and my heart just aches for her .😢
I think Leonor is someone with a bleeding heart, so to speak. She just feels a lot.
Poor Leonor! It's good at least that she has a loving family there to comfort her
Unfortunately, none of João's children with his OTL wife, who was a full sister to Leonor, outlived him and there were nine in total. Although I am being much more merciful to him (and Caterina too, in Italy) I can't just ignore the odds.
Eleanor isn't queen regnant surrounded by power-hungry shitty ass men, so that helps
yeah, no, that isn't likely - if anything he'd want her to keep having kids because some of their sons had died
They have two sons and three daughters. João's younger brother is also married and João is pushing for him to reconcile with Guiomar, so that he may produce a few sons of his own.
Absolutely no need for that, and by the way in Portugal also the girls can inherit the crown
Caterina having the OTL troubles in Italy would make no sense, as was the combination of her genes and Joao's to be so bad (and that was mostly on him, as Isabella and Charles got a much better rate) or the Portuguese's climate as she had zero miscarriages
Very good
Don't be a dick. People with mental illnesses aren't crazy, they're sick.
But you're not writing from that time, are you? You're writing from today.
And it was a nightmare. Just a nightmare.