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So what's going to happen when...


Henry finds out on their wedding night that she lied after all and isn't a virgin?

In reality, it didn't seem to matter until much later when she didn't produce a son, but in the context of the show, it should destroy their relationship from day one, long before Mary was born.

Is she going to try to fake it somehow? Because I would think Henry would be experienced enough to know.

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I can’t believe she did it with Arthur. I thought he would die before they did anything?

Did it really happen in real life that she lied ?
In the tv series the Tudors she sounded very convincing when she said nothing happened with Arthur. Now this show is based on a novel by Philipa Gregory, she tends to change a lot of stuff from the real thing for her historical novels.

Ie. in the other Boleyn girl Novel philipa Gregory changed the story about how Henry VIII first fell in love with Anne’s sister and she is the one who gave her a male heir however we all know Henry’s boy came from his third wife Jane Seymour.

So maybe we should all take with a grain of salt how things happened with this show.

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Based on what happened in real life, there's no way to truly know if Catherine had her virginity taken on hers and Arthur's wedding night. The trouble was, you had two awkward, virgin teenagers, who had just met and been through a day's worth of ceremony and festivities, shoved together into a bed by two crowds of adults, hearing all these jokes they weren't prepared for, and expected to do what was natural in that bed. I personally think nothing actually happened that night, due to the awkwardness of the situation between them.

I did read in a fictional version of that story, that Catherine was given a small vial of sheep's blood by a relative, and told to sprinkle it on the bed sheets to fake having had sex for the first time.

Again, this show is another fictional account of Princess Catherine's life, so they would exaggerate what happened for drama and getting people's attention, rather than following history. To make matters worse, they're following Philippa Gregory's book, an author notorious for getting it really wrong about the Tudors, and nobody knows it until the history buffs complain.

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I believe nothing happened, I’m sure Arthur was kind of sick during his marriage with Catherine and they weren’t able to do anything hence she still was actually a virgin when she married Henry.

If it was true that Catherine lied Henry would have gotten rid of her much earlier.

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