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"have you seen "blood ties" it about a vampire and guees what the vampire is Henry fitzroy!!!!
here is the site!
http://www.bloodtiestv.com"

"Actually, I think it was while Henry and Katharine were still contentedly married that Henry ennobled Fitzroy. H & K of A did have a huge argument over it. They reconciled. Later after the king became smitten with Anne, it is true that Henry's advisers proposed marrying Henry Fitzroy to Henry's daughter, Mary. It even had the unspoken agreement of the Pope(!) if Henry would give up the idea of a divorce. The urgency for divorcing Katharine, although it had been considered before in the interest of getting a male heir, came after he fell in love with Anne and knew that he would not be able to have her unless he could marry her.
It should be remembered that in ancient Egypt, it was common for sisters and brothers to marry to preserve the purity! of the blood.
Because of the custom of intermarrying (many of Queen Victoria's children married cousins), some unfortunate traits were perpetuated among which was the hemophilia which Alexei, son of Nicholas, the last czar of Russia, suffered. One of Queen Victoria's sons, Prince Leopold, also had it. The tzarevitch's mother, Alexandra was a granddaughter of Queen Victoria; her mother was Princess Alice. Tzar Nicholas' mother, the Empress Marie (originally a princess of Denmark) was the sister of Victoria's son, Edward's wife, Alexandra of Denmark. Their son, later King George V, was a first cousin of Tzar Nicholas, so you can see how inbred everyone was.
In Henry's time, and even since, one of the hallmarks of Habsburg inbreeding is a grotesquely protruding lower jaw which can be seen in some portraits of the Emperor Charles V. and even some of the Emperor Franz Josef's children, Princess Valerie for one.
To marry someone in such a close degree of affinity was against canon law and inatural law in most places, but the pope was willing to render a dispensation if Henry would give up the idea of divorce. Fraser, pg. 151. The system was indeed corrupt.
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