TUDOR ROYAL FERTILITY PROBLEMS. Royal childbirth experiences. Producing a male heir. History Calling

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What were the reasons for the ROYAL FERTILITY PROBLEMS suffered by Henry VIII and his wives which made producing a male heir so difficult for the most famous Tudor King and his consorts? Were the Tudors fertility challenged as a group, or was it just one person who had difficulties in this area? In this week’s Tudors and six wives documentary from History Calling we look at the conceptions, pregnancies, miscarriages, stillbirths and royal childbirth experiences of three of the six wives of Henry VIII; Queens Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn and Jane Seymour, plus one of his mistresses, Elizabeth Blount (aka Bessie Blount) who was the mother of his illegitimate son, Henry Fitzroy, Duke of Richmond. We’ll consider the numerous theories which have sought to explain over the centuries why Henry’s quest for an heir was so long and difficult. These include the idea that Henry VIII had syphilis, that one or more of the mothers of his children suffered from the rhesus D phenomenon, or that Kell syndrome may have been to blame. We’ll also examine the theory that Henry VIII was increasingly impotent from the 1530s onward and ultimately try to answer the question, why did so many Tudor children die within this branch of the royal family? This video will also include a discussion of Henry’s problems or potential problems in the bedroom department during his marriages to Anne of Cleves, Katherine Howard and Catherine Parr (none of whom fell pregnant by him). Amazon storefront: https://www.amazon.com/shop/historycalling Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/historycalling Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/historycalling/ YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE: SIX WIVES OF HENRY VIII PLAYLIST https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLSjVq5Qtb0Hb5Wjykc2hBrBddQYXDUqU WAS HENRY VIII BRAIN DAMAGED? https://youtu.be/4Rd0s1roPoU DID CATHERINE OF ARAGON SLEEP WITH PRINCE ARTHUR TUDOR? https://youtu.be/JQp-SLOhx90 DID ANNE BOLEYN HAVE A PHANTOM PREGNANCY? https://youtu.be/fTCTzd4IG9s WHAT HAPPENED TO QUEEN ANNE’S CHILDREN [ANNE STUART] https://youtu.be/qUc0wmJGTgg ANNE BOLEYN’S EXECUTION https://youtu.be/gBczwBsGCqM BUY OR RENT The Tudors, season 1 https://amzn.to/3rFmveg (UK link) OR https://amzn.to/2VCwQ0j (US link) The Tudors, season 2 https://amzn.to/3m64HIn (UK link) OR https://amzn.to/2VMPnHw (US link) The Tudors, season 3 https://amzn.to/3wiwPwi (UK link) OR https://amzn.to/3BijsPB (US link) The Tudors, season 4 https://amzn.to/3rNeggF (UK link) OR https://amzn.to/3z16S58 (US link) Wolf Hall (2015) https://amzn.to/2UJ9Mwz (UK link) OR https://amzn.to/3B70Qlp (US link) The Other Boleyn Girl (2008) https://amzn.to/3jhXAgo (UK link) OR https://amzn.to/3xKvbEg (US link) Anne of the Thousand Days (1969) https://amzn.to/3dAIlf9 (UK link) OR https://amzn.to/3z5xt18 (US link) Henry VIII and his Six Wives (2016 docu-drama) https://amzn.to/3jiCkag Six Wives with Lucy Worsley (2016 docu-drama) https://amzn.to/3hd93vd (UK link) OR https://amzn.to/3wH2mr2 (US link) READ Eric Ives, The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn (Wiley-Blackwell, 2005) https://amzn.to/3h9efQD (UK link) OR https://amzn.to/3xLivgr (US link) Gareth Russell, Young and Damned and Fair: The Life and Tragedy of Catherine Howard at the Court of Henry VIII (2017). https://amzn.to/3xldHhi (UK link) OR https://amzn.to/2VExTgg (US link) Josephine Wilkinson, Katherine Howard: The Tragic Story of Henry VIII's Fifth Queen (London, 2016). https://amzn.to/3x7MxdO (UK link) OR https://amzn.to/3rbFuPj (US link) Susan James, Catherine Parr: Henry VIII's Last Love (2008) https://amzn.to/2XCS9Am (UK link) OR https://amzn.to/3nLizL1 (US link) Antonia Fraser, The Six Wives Of Henry VIII (2nd edn, Phoenix, 2009) https://amzn.to/3atiEfi (UK link) OR https://amzn.to/36IqD5r (US link) David Starkey, Six Wives: the Queens of Henry VIII (Vintage, 2004) https://amzn.to/3k9uD4Z (UK link) OR https://amzn.to/3wImKIh (US link) Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall (Fourth Estate, 2010) https://amzn.to/3AbIr6D (UK link) OR https://amzn.to/2UQmA48 (US link) Centre for Disease Control and Infection – article on syphilis https://www.cdc.gov/std/syphilis/stdfact-syphilis.htm Catrina Banks Whitely and Kyra Kramer, ‘A new explanation for the reproductive woes and midlife decline of Henry VIII’ in Historical Journal, 53:4 (2010), pp 827-48. https://www.jstor.org/stable/40930359 Sir John Dewhurst, ‘THE ALLEGED MISCARRIAGES OF CATHERINE OF ARAGON AND ANNE BOLEYN’ in Medical History, 28 (1984), pp 49-56. https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/BD5D12F0000BC9B46BB8329A9D5D19AB/S0025727300035316a.pdf/the-alleged-miscarriages-of-catherine-of-aragon-and-anne-boleyn.pdf NB: Links above may be affiliate links. This means if you make a purchase through one of these links, I earn a small commission. It in no way affects the price you pay. Creative Commons licenses used see https://creativecommons.org/licenses/