Oh yes, that’s the scenario I’m positing. Henry’s moved Heaven and raised Hell to get this woman to be his queen, thinking that she’ll be bringing him lots of lovely sons. And then as each month goes by, he realizes she’s not getting pregnant.
OTL, there was Elizabeth I and a few miscarriages which I guess gave him some hope until Jane Seymour emerged on the scene. Anne herself told Henry that she was wasting her youth waiting for him, when she could’ve married another man and borne him fine sons. Here, she has wasted her youth, I guess.
Maybe it’s the stress, maybe it was that bout of illness she had in the late 1520s where she nearly died, maybe she is just genetically incompatible with our favourite Tudor king. But whatever, the reason, Anne is unable to get pregnant – not miscarriages or something like Katherine suffered. How might Henry (who was profoundly religious/superstitious) view the fact that this woman can’t bear him any children, much less a son?