On 25th April 1536, Henry VIII wrote a rather strange letter to his ambassadors abroad. Less than a month before his second wife was executed, and the day after the commissions of oyer and terminer had been set up, the king was suddenly hopeful that there was “great likelihood” of him having a Prince of Wales.
Just what was going on?
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