Medical Downfall of the Tudors Quotes

“she was given an honorary position within the royal family because the King “adopted me as his sister”,”
― Sylvia Barbara Soberton, Medical Downfall of the Tudors: Sex, Reproduction & Succession

“Katharine’s unspeakable “diseases” were of an intimate nature. But if Katharine was indeed diseased, the same question springs to mind once again: Why didn’t Henry react earlier? Perhaps because, as Katharine of Aragon’s modern biographer asserts, “the Queen was not diseased”, and Wolsey was desperate to obtain the annulment.[250”
― Sylvia Barbara Soberton, Medical Downfall of the Tudors: Sex, Reproduction & Succession