You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly. You should upgrade or use an alternative browser.
alternatehistory.com
She nearly lost her own life as a new widow at 13 when she bore her only child Henry Tudor and would never grow an inch taller as well as being rendered barren despite marrying twice more. She would spend the next 28 years channeling her energies by hook or crook to transform her son from being the barely acknowledged half-nephew of a soon-to-be deposed king to being king himself despite the large number of more genealogically suitable folks qualified to rule. Had she died at any time from his birth to his adulthood, is it possible that Henry Tudor would have been anything more than a mercenary to whoever gained the throne if he survived infancy and childhood at all?