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HENRY VIII’S LEGACY

read with interest your alternative history article on what would have changed had Henry VIII’s firstborn son, Prince Henry, lived (July 2020). In my estimation,very little would have changed as, inevitably as he did with most women, Henry would have grown bored with Catherine of Aragon and pursued younger women as he aged, maybe

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