Margaret Beaufort gave birth to her baby boy at the appalling age of 13? She would have been 12 years old at the time of conception.
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Margaret Beaufort gave birth to her baby boy at the appalling age of 13? She would have been 12 years old at the time of conception. The labor and birth was said to have been so traumatic that she never gave birth again.
Her 27 year old husband, Edmond Tudor, who was half brother to the weak King Henry VI, died when she was 6 months pregnant.
Leaving Margaret and her son with nothing. And so began her role in the game of thrones during the height of The Wars of the Roses.
She would be forcefully separated from her baby boy after his birth, but was able to place him in the care of his uncle, Jasper Tudor.
It would take years of hard work to regain her young sons lands which were stripped from him when king Edward IV took the throne, years of switching allegiance when needed, bowing down to those she loathed, marrying a man from the opposing side for protection and maneuvering her chess pieces strategically until one day—she managed to make her son a king.
King Henry VII.
And so began the Tudor monarchy
~~SM



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