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Published by Amberley Publishing, November 15, 2013. Published by Vintage (Penguin), March 3, 2008.Īmy Licence, In Bed with the Tudors. Grab your pregnancy manual, your holy girdle, and call the midwife: let’s go traveling.Īlison Wier, The Six Wives of Henry VIII. We have a special guest traveling with us, too: historian Elizabeth Norton, author of many books about the Tudor age. She’ll be our tour guide through all things pregnancy related for a woman in the Tudor age. In this episode, we’ll follow Jane as she tries to get pregnant, through her nine months of pregnancy and into the birthing room. So much rode on her ability to have children - especially boys - but it’s a dangerous proposition.
That was the goal, and considered perhaps her most important duty, both in the eyes of God and her society at large. Most Tudor women were pregnant several times during their lifetimes. Jane’s queenship, her marriage, and her life are all at stake. She rests a hand on the rounded swell and sends up a prayer to God to protect her on this perilous journey. And now it’s Jane Seymour’s turn, and she knows how much is riding on the contents of her very pregnant belly. They fell from grace because they couldn’t give Henry VIII a male heir. The room is quiet, but her own anxious thoughts must be loud.Īfter all, both of the king’s first two wives suffered miscarriages and still births. She will wait in this womb-like space for the arrival of her baby.
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She watches from bed as her ladies’ maids move quietly about her chamber, draping large tapestries over her windows and pulling heavy velvet curtains shut to block out light. For the next month, at least, she will see no one but her ladies, the midwives, and - God forbid, if things go wrong - a male doctor. She’s just bid farewell to the court and is entering into her confinement. It’s September 1537, and England’s queen is eight months pregnant.
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