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I know the topic has been regurgitated so many times on the board already as to be rendered inane, but a few things I noted:

Catherine of Aragon was a pious woman, her anorexia which was as a result of her pious fasting, is not suddenly going to go away the minute she bears a surviving son. I'm wondering if (for the intents of a TL) were Kate to produce a surviving son relatively early on in her marriage, but the boy is more the image of Arthur/Juan than Henry VIII, and thus there's a lot of fondling of rosaries and kneeling on cold stone floors for the PoW to survive, would it detrimentally affect the production of a healthy duke of York-spare for this little boy? (I know OTL she produced the New Year's Boy who died after a month or so, but I was envisioning a slightly longer-lived son here).

Likewise, will Henry have a reaction to a sickly son, rather than a boy who's bluff, hale and hearty? I mean OTL he got Edward VI, but AFAIK, the boy wasn't sick until after Henry died. And might Catherine having produced said sickly heir followed by a string of stillbirths, neonatal fatalities and miscarriages, not raise doubts in his mind similar to OTL (even if the heir is surviving)?
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