vanderbilt:ALTERNATIVE UNIVERSE. Arthur Tudor, firstborn son of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York, and
vanderbilt:ALTERNATIVE UNIVERSE. Arthur Tudor, firstborn son of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York, and his wife, Katherine of Aragon, recovered after their illness. The King and the Queen thanked God for His mercy with many celebrations, and England showed its unconditional love for the King-to-be. But with the years, Henry VII fell ill and finally died, only few months before the death of the Queen. Arthur became King himself, and his wife, Katherine, was crowned next to him at Westminster Abbey, on 24 June 1509. He was crowned Arthur II, according to the will of his father. As the years passing, it appeared that something was wrong in the Royal Couple, who still didn’t have any child, not even a pregnancy. The physicians started to think that the unkown illness of Arthur when he was fifteen could have disturbed his health, and that he probably never will be able to have children. Moreover, the King’s health was pretty variable, and let him weak for weeks and weeks after every ‘episode’. Seeing that the problem couldn’t be solved, Arthur started to think about the future of the Kingdom, particularly after his death. Henry, his brother, was his only heir, and during the last years of his reign, he associated him to the political business of the country. Arthur finally died of illness in his mid-thirties, leaving the country to his brother, later crowned as Henry VIII. -- source link
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