Hey guys I am not dead! Unfortunately I was grounded for a week long story but if you would like to know PM. But I have a lot of stories to put up including one with Cromwell being creepy with his son GREGORY! Anyway I hope you enjoy it's another one of my great what if's.
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Not So Bloody Mary
What Mary Tudor Learned About Love:
England 1540
Mary Tudor knew nothing about love. The people to blame were her parents. Her parents Princess Dowager Katherine of Aragon and King Henry VIII (both still alive and well at the time) did love her dearly so their affection wasn't at all the cause of her confusion about love, but it was how she watched her parents love different people. And from their actions Mary learned what she thought was love.
At 9 years old she learned her first two lessons about love. The first and last lesson she learned from both her parents at the same time was that love never lasts forever. She watched helplessly at nine years old her parents end their marriage. That same year she learned from her mother as quickly as you can fall into love, you can just as quickly fall into love once again. She learned this lesson by watching her mother kiss affectionately the man, who was going to be her future stepfather Sir Thomas More.
When Mary was 11 years old her mother remarried to the Lord Chancellor serving her Father Sir Thomas More. She remembered how happy her mother looked as they took her vows. She knew it would be weird having another father, but it was something she would get used to. But when her mother married Sir Thomas she learned her next lesson about love, to give a new member of the family a chance. Mary did have doubts about Sir Thomas marrying her mother but the moment they joined each other in holy matrimony Sir Thomas wrapped a arm around her and said welcome to the family. He then welcomed her into his home, as Mary was his own. From that day she sometimes preferred Sir Thomas to her own father.
At 12 years old she learned a very important lesson from her father. Years before, unknown to Mary, her father fell in love with a wench named Anne Boleyn. Well the deeper he fell in love with Anne the faster he lost his judgment. To make the long story short her father made his own church just to marry Anne. From that Mary learned that love can drive one to do irrational things and never let love affect her judgment.
When Mary was 15 her stepfather was almost executed. She remembered how scared she was for him and her mother who was pregnant with Mary's future sister Isabella. But the night before Sir Thomas' trial, Mary's mother risked her and her child's life by begging to the King to spare her husband's life. Her father the King admired his former wife for her courage and the next day her stepfather walked out of the tower a free man. Mary learned that if one loves someone dearly he or she would risk everything to save the one that they love's life.
At 16 years old Mary learned that love doesn't always end happily. She learned that from neither her mother nor her father. She learned that from her stepmother she despised, Anne Boleyn. Mary never really liked Anne. She always made fun of her mother, even tried to kill her once. She treated Mary the same way. When Mary and her Mother found out Anne was to be beheaded they both of them smiled as if they found out they were to be crowned the Queens of England. Though Mary was ecstatic that Anne was out of her life she couldn't help to feel a bit sorry for her, she didn't get the happy ending she wanted.
From the time Mary was 17 to the time she was 19 she learned the hardest lesson from her father and her stepmother at the time. Her father fell deeply in love with Jane Seymour. They had a happy marriage, and balanced Mary's father mania. And just like Sir Thomas, Jane accepted Mary as if she was her own daughter. However that marriage didn't last long either. When Jane fulfilled Mary's father's desire to have a son, an heir to the throne, tragedy struck. Jane died from a infection from childbirth. Mary's father was devastated and remained devastated from then on out. When the Phoenix died out of the ashes rose this hard yet devastating lesson, when one looses the one he or she loves, they loose half of themselves.
Here was Mary now at 19 years old. She had seen a lot when it came to love but never put her experiences in her own life. But little did Mary know she was about finally put these lessons to the test with the man she least expected to fall in love with in….
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