[ SECRET POST #4524 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4524 ⌋

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[tree_and_leaf]

In the Middle Ages, it was not uncommon, where members of the nobility were married as children or barely-teenagers, for several years to pass before they slept together. Even if mediaeval people didn't share our ideas about consent and when adults were adults, they weren't stupid and had noticed that thirteen year olds having babies often ended badly. As indeed it did for Margaret - while she and the baby both survived, the birth was very difficult, and she had no further children in either of her two other marriages, apparently because she'd been left infertile by the injuries she sustained. (She had actually been married twice by the age of thirteen, although her first marriage was annulled and she never regarded John de la Pole, the boy she was first married to, as her husband. There's no evidence the marriage was anything more than nominal).

There were specific reasons why Edmund Tudor desperately wanted an heir by Margaret as quickly as possible - it wasn't the norm. Although, of course, it also wasn't considered *completely* unacceptable.