Tragically, his hopes were to come to nothing yet again, for on 10 November Katherine had a daughter, ‘to the vexation of as many as knew it. Never had the kingdom desired anything so anxiously as it did a prince.’ The baby was very weak, and died before she could be christened. The Queen found this latest disappointment almost too much to bear, and openly wondered if the loss of her children was a judgement of God ‘for that her former marriage was made in blood’.
