Time Travel To The Time Of Good Old Henry VIII : Queens of Present and Future, and the End of The Wars Of The Roses by Mr A.N.Muggins

     Alfred thought Catherine of Aragon was a real Queen! He loved the way she pronounced her words with a Spanish accent. She behaved like a Queen at all times and she did many constructive things. Everyone loved or liked her, and Henry did never quite realise how he ripped the heart out of his Kingdom when he discarded her in such a callous way!

     But when Alfred came to know Anne Boleyn he could understand the power which she held over the King at that time, for she was most enticing and charming. He could well understand why Henry could not resist her charms, for she was indeed beautiful, and entertaining, scheming and bewitching (although he shouldn’t really use that word in those days, because it might well have put Anne in trouble (particularly from the erstwhile puritans, as well as maybe even from the Catholics too!))

     Catherine accepted Mrs Muggins as one of her Ladies In Waiting, and Mrs Muggins began to relax as she got to hear all the gossip of the Court, and got to know the Queen, who was very gentle, even though she very much knew how to be a Queen.

     Catherine seemed to understand that King Henry had brought the Mugginses to Court partly because he liked the look of Mrs Muggins and wanted her to be at Court. She was not the first woman he had sent to be one of his Queen’s Ladies In Waiting, and she would not be his last, but Queen Catherine knew that the King would never touch a married woman inappropriately, and particularly as her husband was at Court too. Alfred, and Mrs Muggins also, came to regard Catherine as a kind of old fashioned mother figure, caring and honourable, supportive of the King and all his people too.

     Presumably King Henry just liked having nice ladies around at Court, and why shouldn’t he? After all he was the King, by Divine Right, as well as by the fact that his father had ended the Wars Of The Roses once and for all at the Battle of Bosworth, and trounced the evil usurper hunchback King Richard III, who had somehow done away with the little Princes in the Tower, one of whom should have been King at that time. There were no other worthy Yorkist contenders to the throne after that.

     Besides that, Henry’s father Henry VII married Henry’s mother Elizabeth Of York, thus uniting the two contending Houses into one. So little Auld Henry, when he was born was the true heir to the Wars Of The Roses, and to the English Throne, uniting the Red Rose of Lancaster and the White Rose of York into the marvellous combined Tudor Roses of Red and White, achieving what Henry Bolingbroke (Henry IV), the witless and soft  King Henry VI, battle hardened Edward IV, and his younger brother Richard III, had all failed to do (with a little help from a few of their friends (and wives!) such as Warwick the Kingmaker, and Margaret of Anjou etc.)  There was just no need to fight any more! They had their most perfect King, hopefully forever!