On the dawn of the 25th of January 1536, after a particularly nasty fall from his horse during a joust, Henry VIII, King of England, breathes his last. So starts the tumultuous rise and reign of Mary, the first of her name, Queen of England.
For Paula, who actually listens to me yammer on about this idea.
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If you happen to come from AH.com, you already know what this is about. But for the uninitiated, this came about because that line in Wolf Hall where Cromwell sends for Mary when Henry almost dies during the joust because “he cannot hold the throne for an infant in the cradle” has been bothering me for the past seven years, so for NaNo this year, I threw caution to the wind and wrote this. I guess that probably means this also counts as a Wolf Hall fic.
Sketch of the Lady Mary, daughter of King Henry, done by Hans Holbein in 1536
“No one could have disproved that this august Lady was the daughter of Kings.”
— apocryphal quote, usually attributed to Eustace Chapuys, Imperial Ambassador to England
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