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Some of Jacquetta of Luxemburg's male descendants had problems having issue - either entirely (like most of her sons) or of the right sex. There is the theory that Henry VIII's suffered from McLeod's that he inherited from the Wydeville matriarch and this was a medical explanation to cover most of Henry's eccentricities.

My first question is whether there is substantial enough proof that we can postulate Edward V or Richard of Shrewsbury might've suffered from a similar problem.

My second question concerns Edward VI. There's a raft of theories about why Henry VIII struggled to have kids. But would any of them (like the congenital syphilis Edward and Mary (possibly Fitzroy too) suffered from) have hindered the chances of Edward VI having kids with a fertile bride?
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