Because Henry recovered from his fall, perhaps Chapuys decided not to go into detail…But I agree it is curious that — that’s pretty much all he said on the matter.

I’ve read he was barely unconsious for any time at all, and that Anne’s miscarriage was more caused by the shock of finding Jane Seymour on her husband’s lap. Boleyn’s theory – in the post above – is an interesting one though. Given how much was riding on Anne’s pregnancy at this point the slightest thing could have sent her over the edge emotionally.

Rumour has it by the way that on the day that Anne miscarried all the tapers around COA’s tomb blazed up shining brightly for some minutes before settling back down to normal.. it was said this also happened again on the day of Anne’s execution. It is also said that Maria de Salanas was buried with Catherine when she died. In the Victorian Era some curious victorian nosey parkers were supposed to have gone into the vault of Peterbrough Catherdral and made a small hole in COA’s coffin which they stated was quite large and put in a small metal hook and pulled out a small fragment of black lace cloth which smelt strongly of I presume spiced Alcohol but before they had chance to examine it it dissolved in into dust. They quickly sealed up the hole and left.. COA’s tomb is topped with a black Marble slab with gold lettering on it. It’s beautiful but very sad as well that this once great Queen of England has so a simple tomb.

Thank you Anyanka. So it is entirely possible then that they were right. I had thought that given that Anne had so many enemies that perhaps the doctors were told (threatened with violence) or bribed to say it was a son.
It was also rumoured that they said the child showed signs of abnormality? Hmm I’m not to sure about this one to be honest. Mother nature as a way of sorting out the wheat from the chaff so to speak and i’m sure that if the baby was deformed in some way she would have miscarried a month or even 6 weeks before, as she had had 1 maybe 2 miscarriages after Elizabeth before she ot pregnant with this last chance for her. That’s sounds a bit hollow but it’s not meant that way but this baby was indeed Anne’s last chance her very life depended upon it. Her loss of the baby must have been a devestating blow to her. Poor Anne.

Sharon said

Chapuys claimed that “the child had the appearance of a male about three months and a half old.” Wriothesley agreed it was “a man child.” and said that “she (Anne) had reckoned herself at the time but fifteen weeks gone with child.”
I agree that those who attended Anne during this miscarriage would have been able to tell the gender.
During Elizabeth’s reign, Nicolas Sander claimed Anne miscarried of “a shapeless mass.” There was no mention of a deformed fetus at the time of the miscarriage or during the rest of Henry’s reign. This theory came about much later. The thinking was that a deformity in a baby was a sign of sexual misbehavior by a parent. It couldn’t possibly have been Henry, therefore, Anne was the guilty party and she was guilty of the charges brought against her.

I was thinking much the same thing myself about Anne supposed deformed baby. That Cromwell made the story of incest out of it made me wonder about the whole rumour of alledged deformaty. I don’t think he openly said that George must of been the father of Anne’s child I think he more or less implied it was to give his drummed up case against her a little bit more pep, and to blacken her forever. I.e the woman was the biggest wh*re since the wh*re of babylon first became know of, and her sexual charms was of such a nature that she wold sleep with anything animal (Henry) Vegatable (Henry) or mineral, including her own brother.
it could well of been that the child was perhaps a little younger in term than 15 weeks. if so then the child was not fully formed at this time and could well of been still developing. The first 3 months are when the baby’s blueprint is in the making after that, it’s just a case of growing up. and the poor mother throwing up with morning sickness. It wasn’t easy to judge how far along they were along with their pregnancy in those days. these days with ultrasound it’s much easier although they can be wrong sometimes.