The saviour of Anne Boleyn (16th century timeline/story)

I believe Henry convinced himself; he could talk himself in almost anything he wanted. But I think what I'm really asking is: Does he view this as God's blessing or a Witch's (and therefore the Devil's) trick?

Ooo, I didn't think of the witches trick. That is an interesting slant on it.

Looking forward to the next update even more now.
 
I'd say he'd look at the period between Elizabeth and the Prince of Wales as a test of his love, and he failed. It could actually lead to him being too much in the other direction again, completely dropping everyone but the Boleyn fraction. Or, he could rebel against the idea he failed the test and instead look at it that Anne PASSED the test, and thus is once again worthy of being Queen. Hell, the right person could convince him that he was wrong and only now Catherine of Aragon is dead will Anne give him sons, particularly if she gives him a Duke of York next. But he's not going to leave her, now he has a Prince of Wales and a "legitimate daughter".
 

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Officially Henry is going to be all: I was right all along, look at my perfect family! God is on my side!
But privately he will both be pleased and annoyed. He's happy with Anne for finally giving him a son, but he's also angry that she ruined his plans. He's basically going to blame Anne for him not getting to marry Jane.
He wouldn't think of a son as a trick of the devil though, he's too proud to think that. That's basically saying that he didn't father the son by himself, or that he needed help by witchcraft to have a son.
 
Is the son going to be called Henry or Edward, or some other Tudor name? I'd suggest Edward, but it's up to you. :)
 
June 25th 1536

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June 25th

The christening of Henry, the Prince of Wales, happened without any incident. His godparents were Francis I, King of France, Margaret Tudor, the king’s sister and the Queen mother of Scotland, the Duke of Norfolk, the queen’s uncle, and Marguerite of Anglouême, Queen of Navarre.
His sister, the princess Elizabeth, had carried the christening cloth, and she herself had been carried by her uncle George.
One notable person was absent however, and that was Lady Mary, the king’s eldest daughter.

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Mary glared at the piece of paper on her desk as if it had personally offended her, and in a way it had. It was an oath saying she accepted the act of succession declaring her parents’s marriage null and void, admitting herself a bastard, and she was supposed to sign it. She was supposed to acknowledge the marriage between her father and his whore, her mother’s murderer, and make their children legitimate and placed over her in the line of succession. Over her, the grandchild of the catholic monarchs, the daughter of her sainted mother Queen Catherine, and the cousin of the Holy Roman Emperor!

She paced back and forth in her room, trying to make up her mind. She wanted to throw the paper in the fire, but she knew that if she did so she would have no more chances left. Not now that her father finally had a son with that protestant whore Anne Boleyn.
She wanted to believe that her father would never harm her, that she was still his precious daughter, but after she had been locked in her room after the birth of her brother she knew it was not so. Her father would not risk the life of his new heir, and she was apparently seen as a threat until she signed away her rights.
She had prayed for guidance for days, hoping to get a sign from God on what to do, but she had gotten no answer, and she knew it up to her to make a decision.
Would her mother be angry at her for risking her life, or proud of her for standing up for her rights? Would she be letting that whore win by signing, or would signing mean that she was still around to fight for her religion? Her younger siblings needed her to teach them the right way, the whore would surely try to poison them with her heretic views, and their father was no longer a defender of the catholic church.
Thinking about her father made her even more upset. He was the only parent she had left, was she really ready to lose his love and affection for good?

Mary sat back down, took a deep breath and signed her new name, Lady Mary Tudor, hoping and praying that her mother would forgive her.
 
I think if Mary Tudor's betrothed, Francis III, duke of Brittany, he might marry her in exchange of waving her rights..the French would not press the claims of Mary since the French are allies of Boleyn..

I think the better choice for Mary to marry is the Duke of Beja since he is unlikely to inherit..
 
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I think if Mary Tudor's betrothed, Francis III, duke of Brittany, he might marry her in exchange of waving her rights..the French would not press the claims of Mary since the French are allies of Boleyn..

I think the better choice for Mary to marry is the Duke of Beja since he is unlikely to inherit..

Not the way the wind is blowing in 1536. Besides, the French already had a prospective match tabled for the duc d'Angoulême to Princess Elizabeth. But, this is 1537, and in '37 the English foreign policy was veering towards the Empire, Karl V had come a-courting for an alliance - and with Catherine of Aragon out of the way, and Anne birthing a live son (thereby proving that the union is blessed by God) - he's not going to be championing Mary. She's more likely to get Beja, or some royal non-entity (as in Now Blooms the Tudor Rose, where she marries the king of Denmark's brother, who can't succeed to Denmark-Norway himself).
 

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I'm going with John of Denmark as Mary's future betrothed.
He's an unimportant royal, as the younger half-brother of the King of Denmark-Norway, he's also titleless atm. Which means he likely would be okay with marrying a royal bastard, especially if he gets a dukedom as a wedding present.
 
I'm going with John of Denmark as Mary's future betrothed.
He's an unimportant royal, as the younger half-brother of the King of Denmark-Norway, he's also titleless atm. Which means he likely would be okay with marrying a royal bastard, especially if he gets a dukedom as a wedding present.

But he's LUTHERAN and H8 HATES LUTHERANS.


That is why Mary should marry Beja as a compromise to Charles V and have Charles V recognize Anne Boleyn and return England to catholic faith..Mary would be the second Philippa of Lancaster in that scenario..
 
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