Hello readers and welcome to a new Tudors fairy tale story. This tale is based off Beauty and the Beast and will be the focus of the characters Katherine Parr and King Henry VIII. This idea came from a reviewer by the name of FrauThenardier and I would like to thank her for coming up with this idea. I hope this story will be a very good story to read. Reminder to everyone it will take me a while to update once in a while because right now I am busy will school. So sit back and relax and enjoy this story.
Prologue
Katherine Parr and The Beast
Once upon a time in a faraway country called England their lived a King named Henry Tudor VIII. King Henry was a very good king but he was very vain. He was known to be greedy and a lover of woman.
King Henry's first marriage to Katherine of Aragon had failed to produce a living son and instead she had produced a daughter called Mary. King Henry however thought that having a daughter on the throne would be useless so he divorced Katherine and declared Mary illegitimate and in return he married a dark haired young woman named Anne Boleyn.
King Henry's marriage to Anne Boleyn after a while turned out to be a disaster. They would constantly fight will each other. The marriage had produced a healthy daughter called Elizabeth. King Henry had gotten a wandering eye and put his eyes on a young pretty but plain young maiden whose name was Jane Seymour. This made Anne to become a jealous wife. Anne would do anything in her power in order to keep her control on her throne and her husband.
King Henry however soon received rumors from advisers that there were rumors about Anne being unfaithful to him. King Henry believed these rumors as he thought they would rid himself from a woman that made his life a living hell and marry a woman who would be a obedient and dutiful wife that would produce him the son that he needed to continue with the Tudor Dynasty.
Anne Boleyn was soon given a trial for these accusations and sentence to death. Anne was not happy in this matter. So on the day of her execution when she stood upon the people of England on the scaffold and told the people these words.
"Good people of England. Today I die as doomed servant of his majesty King Henry VIII. He may think that I die a doomed woman but I am determined that I shall not die doomed but a productive death with a few words of the future of our king. May his majesty never know the meaning of true lover and may he become the most hated man in the world and have the most foul temper that no one shall love him and all shall fear him." Anne told the people before she was executed.
After Anne Boleyn was executed King Henry received the news of what she had said about him at her execution. King Henry believed that what she had said was just plain rubbish. Later on King Henry became high in temper and would scream at anyone who would come near him.
The Kings dramatic change in mood became a great fear in the the eyes of the people of the court. Members of the court fled from the court fearing they would become victims to the Kings newfounded anger. Jane Seymour and her family fled England knowing that it wouldn't be safe to be married to a monarch who was developed a bad temper that would change the way of how people thought of him.
After the members of the court had fled. King Henry was very much alone. He had only had a few friends that remained at the court. They were his sister Mary, best friend Charles Brandon, and Anthony Knivert. They were the only ones who remained at the palace with the King but rarely saw him as he stayed in his room most of the time. His daughters Mary and Elizabeth were safely hid in the countryside with their governess's
With no suitable person to be able to rule in the place of a mad King the country soon feel in despair. Money became a scarce treasure and people had no ways to be able to support themselves with no money that they chose to leave the country that they had lived in most of their lives.
However their was a loophole in this curse. Anne had said that King Henry would never know the meaning of true love. There could be hope that someone would find a way to be able to find a way to reach the king and teach him the meaning of love. Most people thought that this mostly pure rubbish and told other people who could ever teach a man the meaning of love.
But one day this question that lingered in the minds of people would be answered by a woman who was running from a unwanted union with a man that she did not love.
There you go the prologue of this new story. I hope you all enjoyed reading this chapter and I hope you all review. And I hope that I will have the next chapter written soon.
