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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m descended from her sister Mary. I’m appreciating this thread.

My understanding is that her parents were so ambitious that they were willing to risk their children. But true - that was the nature of the times. [/quote]

Is Henry your grandpapa? [/quote]

NP here, He could very well be.  IF it's true that a few of Mary's kids were his, there's a very good chance his descendants are with us today.[/quote]

I think some people think all her kids were Henry’s.  The theory being he was still sleeping with her even after marrying anne because he didn’t want to risk anne miscarrying any of the preganancies (plus she likely needed some recovery time after birth or miscarriage).  It seems to me somewhat less likely only because the evidence seems pretty good that Henry had Kell blood group antibody so she could not have had more than one kid with him unless Mary was also Kell positive.  That’s possible but would also be so deeply ironic that he just picked the wrong sister — less than 10% of the population could give him more than one kid, and he got so close.  I’d love to see DNA analysis on all of them.  It’s probably hard to do because the English royalty is all so interrelated — they were basically all cousins anyway so testing dependents would not be useful.[/quote]

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