athousandtales:As always with his wives’ pregnancies, Henry was convinced that the child would be a
athousandtales:As always with his wives’ pregnancies, Henry was convinced that the child would be a boy and ordered a stall to be prepared in the Garter Chapel at Windsor for the new Prince of Wales. Jane would have prayed that her husband was right. By September, it was clear that the birth was imminent and, on 16 September, Jane took to her chamber at Hampton Court, shutting herself away from the world with only her ladies for company. Royal women traditionally took to their chamber a month before the birth and Jane spent the weeks quietly with her ladies, praying that her child would be healthy and that it would be a son. On 9 October she finally went into labour.(x) -- source link
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