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We shall go back to Mary’s childhood and from there we will be able to see what truly happened to the so called bloody queen and those around her in the Tudor court.
We know that Mary was reported to be sick from the time of 1531 and it is also around this time that her father marries Anne Boylan and this is where this story takes a different turn, during this time Catherine or Aragon was tired of fighting and knew that her daughter was miserable, she knew that Mary would be queen and as long as Mary was seen as legitimate she would inherited before any of Anne’s children, so she decided to make an offer to the king just before his wedding to Anne that would change history forever.
To my dear husband
I can now see that you are no longer the man that I marred, you have been so cruel to me and to Mary who is your only legitimate daughter, so I shall make you this deal and I shall put aside my need for those of my daughter as a parents should do, I will choose to retire to a nunnery so that you will be free to take another wife, although I do have my terms I want my title of my youth back I wish to be the infana princess of Spain and I wish for Mary to remain princess of England and also to have her heritage recognised as she is descended from the grate rulers of span.
This is offer to you my husband and you are my husband still until I releases you or god does
Katherine of Aragon the queen of England
The king was not sure of what to make from this and after a few minutes of thinking he called for Cromwell
“A Crum I need you to send some letters for me, I need one to go to Katherine and tell her that I accept her offer and then to ask someone to escort her to a nunnery, we also need a letter to go to the princess Mary to inform her of the changes that are going to take place”
“Your majesty I do not understand” Cromwell tolled the king
The king just passed the letter to Cromwell who read it and looked shocked
“Your majesty I don’t understand why would she change her mind like this” Cromwell explained in a shocked voice
“I think that she has finely understood that she could not beat me in this matter, at least this choose solves all of the problems and means that I can have my pear back with me, and I am sure that she and Anne will learn to love each other like they love me” the king beamed at Cromwell
Cromwell bowed and replied “I am sure it will all be as you say my king” but inside his head was a flurry of thoughts what would this mean for the reformation and what would happen to Anne with Mary back in the picture they both hated each other with a passion and people were going to have to pick a side the protestant Anne descended from the commons of England or the catholic Mary who maternal grandparents drove to moors from Spain, it would be a battle to the death.