Hello and welcome to my Tudors Dynasty podcast. My name is Rebecca Larson. I am the owner of

TudorsDinacy.com and today we are going to discuss the relationship between Mary and Elizabeth

Tudor. Now, just a day or so ago, I requested on my Facebook page what type of topic you would like me

to kind of go off of when it comes to Elizabeth Tudor. Where did you want me to go talking about her?

One of the things that I saw listed a bunch was her relationship with Mary. So I decided to go ahead and research a little bit

more and came up with this podcast idea and had a lot of fun doing the research. So I hope you

enjoy what I came up with and we'll kind of just take it from there. Thank you so much.

Princess Mary Tudor was the apple of her father's eye for many years prior to Lady Anne Boleyn returning to England.

Freshly back from her duties in France, Anne was unlike most women and Henry VIII noticed.

We don't know the exact date that Henry noticed Anne, but once he did, it would change the course of English history.

After Catherine of Erdogan's last unsuccessful pregnancy, Henry began to consider that he would never have a male heir.

He believed the fact that he had married his brother's widow was the reason why, that God would

not grant him living male sons because of their sin. Henry referenced Leviticus 2021, which said,

if a man should take his brother's wife, it is an unclean thing. He shall be without children.

Henry took this as living sons specifically. This was completely against everything that

happened at the beginning of their marriage. Henry made sure to get a papal dispensation so that he

could wet his brother's widow.

Now it was convenient for the king to turn things around to his advantage.

It was around 1524 when Henry began to aggressively pursue Anne Boleyn.

Historian Eric Ives believed that this is when Henry began to reject Catherine of

Aragon and stopped sleeping with her.

It had been seven years since her last pregnancy.

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