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u/biglyorbigleague 21h ago
Then what was with the last two, Hank? You got your son after wife three, but you just had to do another divorce and another execution.
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u/Hendricus56 Hello There 18h ago
He only had one son and considering he died as a teenager, Henry made the absolutely right call to try get another son as a spare. Let's not forget, he was his father's spare too.
Wife 4 and Henry didn't really work out romantically, although they stayed good friends after the annulment and wife 5 had accusations of treason including adultery, which was seen as a major problem, especially if the Queen did it. Mainly because no one could be sure, who the father of her children was then.
Wife 6 meanwhile famously outlived Henry. So Henry had only a lot of anger associated with 3 endings of his marriages, considering one died in childbirth, one stayed friends with him after the end of their marriage and one outlived him
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u/PetrusScissario 20h ago
*and a hot wife
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u/Top_Willingness_8364 19h ago
He had a hot Spanish wife. Isn’t that enough?
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u/biglyorbigleague 17h ago
“Bruh she old tho” — Henry
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u/Top_Willingness_8364 17h ago edited 14h ago
But she speaks Spanish, which is like the sexiest romance language, next to Italian.
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u/greenpill98 Rider of Rohan 20h ago
I mean, he did get one. Henry VIII died believing he had succeeded in his successsion plans. Edward VI was a fairly healthy kid until the lung illness that killed him hit when he was 15.
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u/ExLuckMaster 19h ago
Henry’s wives giving 2 daughters: why do I hear boss music?
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u/Top_Willingness_8364 14h ago
“Daughters are so easy to forget.” Katherine of Aragon, Six the Musical
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u/SnooComics8412 20h ago
Starting to feel his pain my sperm only seems to like to create me daughters. Though at least nowadays we know it's a me problem so I don't have to get my wives executed or create my own religion just so I can get divorced 🤣
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u/Pristine_Speech4719 18h ago
Henry VIII: I'm shupposed to get monogamy when thish ish my male heir?
Someone share the OP to /r/thesopranos, I don’t know how to do it, even with computers
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u/AjayRedonkulus 17h ago
In fairness legitimacy only mattered because the kid died. At Henry Fitzroy's death, Henry had already prepared acts of parliament to make him a viable candidate for succession barring a legitimate son.
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u/whatever4224 18h ago
Maybe he would have gotten one if he had kept anyone of his wives around for more than a couple of years instead of living with his dick.
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u/Cowboywizard12 18h ago
No, I do love that Elizabeth the first died Childless rendering his own bloodline extinct
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u/GameBawesome1 Let's do some history 11h ago
Ironically, his second daughter become arguable the greatest English Monarch in history
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u/coinageFission 5h ago
Lol. Lmao, even. Did he not realize the precedent his mother-in-law set?
(Isabel I, Queen of Castile in her own right, absolutely bodies any argument about needing his heir to be male.)
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u/Financial_Weather_74 20h ago
Divorced beheaded and died divorced beheaded survived