Perhaps that is what God will have me do. Show Bessie Blount compassion to make amends for the sins I have committed.” King Henry VIII has been having an affair with Bessie Blount. (STARZ ...

The revelation has been unearthed by historian Elizabeth Norton who has re-examined royal records as part of an investigation into the life of Henry VIII's famous mistress Bessie Blount.

King Henry VIII's connections to Essex are well-documented - he even had a secret love nest in the county where he kept a ...

She forges history as she reshapes King Henry VIII’s worldview ... could not provide him with a male heir. One mistress, Bessie Blount, bore Henry a son named Henry Fitzroy – the only ...

Elizabeth “Bessie” Blount became Henry VIII’s mistress during his marriage to Catherine of Aragon, and bore him at least one child, Henry Fitzroy. The boy might have ascended to the throne ...

who became Henry VIII. Being married to Catherine didn’t stop Henry venerating other women. He had an affair with Mary Boleyn, Anne’s sister, and Bessie Blount, whose illegitimate son was made ...

So complains Hilary Mantel’s fictional version of Henry VIII—and Sunday marks the ... Along with a son by his mistress, Bessie Blount, then, Henry had four surviving children from at least ...

While Henry Fitzroy was also the firstborn son of Henry VIII and his mistress Bessie Blount. Whitley and Kramer argue that Henry VIII being Kell-positive could be traced back to his maternal ...

Born on June 15, 1519, Henry was the illegitimate child of Henry VIII and his mistress Elizabeth Blount, a lady-in-waiting to Queen Katherine of Aragon. He was given the surname Fitzroy ...