June 16, 1543

Henry VIII had two wives before Jane, failing to produce a male heir leading to the divorce of the first and the beheading of the second.

The only thing they both left behind were their daughters. Mary and Elizabeth both declared illegitimate, going Henry to have no children that could inherit the throne after him. His only son that he had was the product of his third wife. While gaining a son, he gained another daughter, which he named Sybilla and later added to Margery in honor of his wife's mother.

Edward was the next heir to the throne, and following him would be his younger sister by approximately 6 minutes.

The death of Jane was still fresh in the king's mind leading to the twins staying with their godfather and maternal uncle, Thomas Seymour. This also leads them to be heavily guarded and cared for.

Having a son was all Henry wanted. Catherine had succeeded for a while, giving him two sons, Henry, who had died days after they were born.

Henry was convinced that God would not give him a son as long as he married Catherine. He would not have a son as Catherine's years were catching up with her.

Meeting Anne Boleyn concluded the final step of their long-time marriage, planning to make Anne his mistress, to which she denied stating, "Your wife I cannot be, because you have a Queen already. Your mistress I will not be" and with that, the divorce process between the current thing and Queen had begun leading into a six years process.

Marrying Anne on January 25, 1533, was technically bigamous, as his marriage to Katherine was not annulled until May 1533.

He and Anne were experiencing honeymoon before everything went to hell. It started with Elizabeth's birth, and it ended with Anne's beheading.

Eleven days after Anne's death, he married Jane Seymour, Anne's cousin. There was something different about Jane; maybe it was the hair or her attitude or perhaps even the fact that she never asked anything of him or told him what to do with his nation.

Jane had been with child shortly after their wedding but not soon enough for Henry. He took a mistress, one of his wife's ladies, in waiting, and though it wasn't announced, Jane had known but didn't do anything about it.

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For the first time in her prestigious life, Elizabeth had been displaced away from her mother and father, away from court. She couldn't have her way; even her older sister had abandoned her with the nannies and her governess.

Because she was no longer a princess, she was now named a bastard by her father, the king.

Visiting court for the first time after her mother's death was engaging with the noble's attention all on you in a way that you could understand, and being with her sister again was the excellent part, but meeting the new Queen was strange in a way her mother's death was still fresh to her so seeing somebody sitting were she used to sit and to get the love her father gave to her mother was unsettling.

And seeing her pregnant had set a feeling of unease inside of her. Maybe thinking that her father will ignore her even more now and send her back into the countryside without any companions or the child having a higher status than her.

Unfortunately, it would be the latter that happened to end in the death of the queen and the birth of the prince and princess, who would both have a greater rank in the line of succession than her

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Mary had finally witnessed the other side of childbirth with her little sister and brother being born; she thought everything was at peace. Her father had finally had a legitimate son, and she had a new baby sister, which she adored in the passing days of her stepmother's death.

She had always been haunted by the way her mother was dismissed from court and kept away, which put a strain on her and her father's relationship.

Her hatred for the line of succession only grew when her father married Anne Boleyn her family had taken over too much power at court for her liking, and soon Mary was named a bastard, and her half-sister took her place.

Anne had positioned her in Elizabeth's service as a lady in waiting.

When her father disposed of Anne and married Jane, Mary's life prospered; even though she was still considered a bastard, she was still recognized as the king's daughter and visited court frequently.

When her majesty was with child, Mary had taken up residence at court to keep her queen company.

Following the death of her close companion, she spent her days visiting her brother and sister at Wolfhall.