Reply #105: Oooooooh! Yeah, wish that had been on the list!

[Nothing Without Hope]

But then, she'd have given old Henry what-for and left the premises on a wonderful and useful adventure before his thugs could grab her. What a woman!

I do wonder what would have happened if Jane Seymour had survived. She was his one true love, but they didn't really have all that long a marriage. Would he have tired of her and decided she was unfaithful or a witch or whatever? I'm betting it would have happened eventually. She did give him a living, legitimate son, which would have gone a long way toward saving her, and so much the better if she had had additional children. He loved Catherine of Aragorn (to use the English spelling) but turned against her in part because of the repeated failures to produce a living child, let alone a son, after Mary.

He wasn't always the monster he became. Lots of what-ifs.