[Henry VIII] Tudor Crown

Soon after Eleanor Brandon was buried, the domestic epidemic situation improved.

Did London escape the catastrophe? It was not like Northern England, where a part of the population was looted, causing everyone to be afraid to step out of their homes, and a large number of crops were allowed to die in the fields.

Even though the Tudor period has been out of the scope of the Middle Ages, the sanitation environment is not much better than that of the late Middle Ages.Whether it is a crowded city or a straw house that can accommodate an old snack and drink Lasa, it is actually a hotbed of disease and a paradise for bacteria.

Even wealthy people seldom do cleaning or bathing. After all, iron pots are not something that every family has in this era, and the cost of firewood and manpower for a bath is too high, so ordinary people prefer to wash their bodies with cold water or directly clean their bodies. Go for a swim in the river.

A king like Henry VIII who loves cleanliness and soaks in medicinal baths is definitely an outlier in Europe.

Sometimes, William Tudor suspected that the reason why Henry VIII rebelled against Catholicism was because Catholicism regarded bathing as "drinking" and "gluttony" and other vices, so those ascetics always had an unpleasant smell.

William Tudor wanted to change people's hygiene habits and women's productive environment.

In the 21st century, you can't imagine a doctor who doesn't wash his hands before an operation, or a mother who has to stay in an airtight room for several months when she is pregnant.

In this case, even if you can survive the wonderful treatment of the sixteenth century, you may not survive the complications of postoperative infection.

However, the concept that has been held for a long time is overthrown overnight.

Just like the promotion of potato cultivation, William Tudor intends to test the water in Wales first, and then introduce it to other places when the technology is mature.

As for how to get the common people to accept his point of view...

William Tudor: Cousin Charlie I need you.

No matter who questions it, as long as it is marked with a new concept brought from Italy, the center of the world during the Renaissance, and the Spanish emperor tried it and agreed, William Tudor can still communicate underdeveloped and communicate relatively well with foreign countries. A wave of flickering in conservative Wales.When the time is right, even if someone exposes his lies, but there are examples to testify, the common people will not listen to the missionaries' nonsense.

After all, a good life after death is not as important as the present.

Then after the Catholics returned home, Thomas Cromwell's Protestant ideas were more acceptable to the common people-after all, it is better to have comfort at no cost than to have nothing, and there are also some monasteries that were knocked down Assets belong to the people, and who can refuse the temptation of this free.

"Your Highness, Your Majesty the Queen has launched." Just when William Tudor was thinking about his reform plan and wished to fly back to Wales, Richard Cromwell hurried to report: "Your Majesty the King asked you and Mary The princess hastened to Whitehall Palace to witness the birth of the Duke of York, and the "Hymn" was also prepared in Westminster Abbey, and the whole country will celebrate as soon as the prince lands."

Because Henry VIII intends to use the birth of the Duke of York to clear away the haze brought about by the death of the Earl of Nottingham and his wife, London has already arranged various celebrations after the birth of the prince.Even Boleyn and his son were dazzled by the sudden favor of the king. They never thought about how Henry VIII would express his anger if Anne Boleyn gave birth to a stillborn baby or a baby girl.

When William Tudor arrived at the Queen's bedroom in Whitehall Palace, the waiting people had already surrounded the living room.

William Tudor glanced at him. Apart from his sister, Princess Mary, there were also the Duke of Suffolk, the Duke of Norfolk, and the Marquis of Dorset with a bad face.

The pregnant Frances Brandon approached William Tudor with her big belly, and it was rare that she did not show fear to her cousin: "Your Highness, can I take a step to speak?"

Seeing that most of the people present were focusing on the queen's bed, William Tudor made a "please" gesture to Frances Brandon.

Frances Brandon took Richard Cromwell's arm as she spoke with the Prince of Wales in a relatively quiet aisle.

Perhaps the air in the dormitory was too stuffy, so Frances Brandon breathed a sigh of relief the moment she stepped out of the room, stroked her chest, and said to William Tudor, "I know this request is a bit embarrassing, But can you take my niece to your side to raise?"

"What? Your husband doesn't want to raise Mary Fitzroy?" William Tudor could understand the dissatisfaction of the Marquess of Dorset. After all, the benefits of raising Mary Fitzroy belonged to the king and his son and left to Dorset The marquis and his wife had only a drop in the bucket with an annuity of six hundred pounds, and the king's regular picks.

Facing William Tudor's questioning, Frances Brandon looked a little embarrassed.

As the daughter of the duke, she has not inherited the property of the Suffolk line after all, and the Marquess of Dorset is not a prominent nobleman, and her great-grandfather is only the eldest son of the White Queen and an ordinary lord.It is all due to the eccentricity of Queen White and Elizabeth of York that the men in their family married wives whose status was much higher than their own.

But even so, the couple is living very tight.Especially when the couple were both frequent visitors to the Whitehall Palace and needed to maintain the Marquis' pomp, the existence of Mary Fitzroy was a drag, which almost caused the relationship between the Marquis and his wife to fall apart.

"I don't want to give up little Mary's inheritance." After pregnancy, Frances Brandon was more sensitive than usual, and she even burst into tears: "After my mother died, Eleanor was my last heart." Rely on. And little Mary is Eleanor's only daughter, how could I give her up."

"But the Marquess of Dorset doesn't want to take over this mess, does he?" William Tudor saw the pros and cons at a glance: "Even if Mary Fitzroy grows up healthy, he won't get any benefit. Instead, Mary Fitzroy died unexpectedly, then my father will put all the blame on you, and then disqualify you from the inheritance of Eleanor Brandon, right?"

Frances Brandon nodded stiffly, and William Tudor did not live up to her expectations, but said bluntly: "I will ask Mrs. Bryan to take my ward to St. James's Palace after asking my father for instructions. , and you are also to sign a document renunciating the estate of Eleanor Brandon."

"Your Highness." Frances Brandon wanted to say something more, but was interrupted very roughly by William Tudor: "My dear cousin, I will give Eleanor Brandon the eight thousand dollars from His Majesty the King. I will share half of the pound with you, and I hope you can keep the money in secret and don’t let your husband know about it.”

"Yes." Frances Brandon followed William Tudor back to the Queen's room with a sarcastic expression.

After a day and night of struggle, Anne Boleyn finally gave birth to the next prince, but before Henry VIII could show a happy expression, he was frozen by the midwife's pale face and the quiet atmosphere without crying fat face.

The midwife wrapped the newborn little prince airtight, without even covering the blood on it.

"Your Majesty." The trembling midwife moved in front of Henry VIII despite the fear of death, and said hesitantly, "Her Majesty gave birth to a stillborn baby boy."

At this moment, Henry VIII felt dizzy, but what surprised him even more was yet to come.

When the midwife lifted a corner of the swaddling cloth to let Henry VIII see the stillborn baby, the nearly fifty-year-old king directly leaned back on the quick-sighted Duke of Suffolk, and the court doctor on the side hurriedly rescued Henry VIII, Pepper was put under the king's nose, so that he would wake up as soon as possible.

"Take this child out and bury it immediately." Henry VIII, who sneezed, noticed that there were still unknown ministers in the room, so he suppressed the anger that wanted to burst out on the spot, pointed at the Boleyn father and son and gritted his teeth: "Put them into the house." The Tower of London, and then seal the Queen's room, so that she can do whatever she wants, and she is not allowed to see guests."

"Yes." Thomas Cromwell, who was the first to act, asked the guards at the door to take down the frightened Boleyn and his son, and then invited the king and a series of people in the house out, leaving only a few A maid attends to the unconscious Anne Boleyn.