What if Anne Neville is pregnant to Edward of Lancaster

Anne Neville is officially engaged to Edward of Westminster, son of Henry VI and Margaret of Anjou, at the castle of Amboise in France. Then they married in the cathedral of Angers, on 13 December 1470, and the consummation of the marriage is not authorized before the end of Advent. She gets pregnant between the Holy Name of our Lord and the Epiphany.

In mid-February, the matrons confirmed her pregnancy. At the request of Margaret of Anjou, Anne is dispensed from Lent to carry out the pregnancy in complete safety. Childbirth is scheduled between late September and early October 1471. Instead of following Queen Margaret of Anjou and Prince Edward of Westminster, she remained at the castle of Angers where she was confined with her mother Anne Beauchamp, countess of Warwick.

When King Louis heard the news, he sent an escort to Angers to bring her back to court. King Louis appoint a guardian to a child not yet born. The overwhelming victories of Edward IV are kept secret so as not to disturb his pregnancy. At the end of her pregnancy, Anne becomes apathetic and emotional. Everyone fears the outcome of pregnancy.

King Edward is back on his throne and Queen Elizabeth childbears a son, but he lives in worry about the birth of a boy. He even hopes for a premature birth and an unfortunate end for both mother and child. But Anne is comhing the end of her pregnancy. The labor is long and painful. Twins were born, in good health, they were respectfully named Anne and Edward who were then elevated to the Court of France. Louis uses them as a means of pressure against King Edward, whose desire was to recover the children to avoid any further insurrection of Lancaster, having survived as Henry Holland, duke of Exeter, who divorced to Anne of York, or fleeing like Jasper Tudor, earl of Pembroke and John de Vere, earl of Oxford.
 
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