Tudor Curse



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People in the Tudor era were not going around saying 'rubbish.' The modern concept of a 'swear word' didn't exist prior to the 18th or 19th century, when elaborate books of manners banned certain words (the infamous 'four letter words') from polite conversation. ABSTRACT The mental decline of King Henry VIII from being a jovial, charismatic and athletic young man into an increasingly paranoid, brutal tyrant in later life, ever more concerned at his lack of one or more male heirs, has attracted many medical diagnostic theories. It Takes Two, Baby. It all began with one couple: Edmund Tudor and Lady Margaret Beaufort. From the #1 New York Times bestselling author behind the acclaimed Starz series The White Queen comes the story of lady-in-waiting Margaret Pole and her unique view of King Henry VIII’s stratospheric rise to power in Tudor England. As an heir to the Plantagenets, Margaret is seen by the King’s mother, the Red Queen, as a rival to the Tudor claim to the throne.

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Tudor dynasty curse
MeriKim pretty much said it. Elizabeth Woodville and Elizabeth of York cursed the murderer of the princes in the tower. The curse entailed that the person responsible would lose all of their males descendants until only (mostly barren) girls could inherit. I suggest reading the series in order just because each story sheds more light on what happens in The King's Curse. The curse is given in The White Queen. The murderer of the first prince is revealed in The Red Queen. The murderer of the second prince (she basically says outright that the pretender Perkin Warbeck was him) is revealed in The White Princess. Basically Philippa's theory is that the Tudors killed the princes and she's created the curse as a supernatural way to explain why their dynasty died out in the male line and why Henry VIII was the first monarch to have issues with producing an heir.
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This answer contains spoilers…(view spoiler)[The curse goes back to an earlier book in the series, The White Queen, where Elizabeth Woodville and her teenage daughter, Elizabeth of York, cast a curse on the person or persons responsible for the deaths of the princes of York.
At the time, Edward V was the only one who died, because Elizabeth Woodville had sent her younger son into hiding, but in a later book, The White Princess, it is heavily implied that Perkin Warbeck truly was Richard, Duke of York, the younger of the princes of York. It is also implied that the curse expanded to include Edward, the Earl of Warwick, Margaret Pole's brother.
The curse was to punish those who killed the princes of York by killing the killers sons and grandsons, thereby leaving only girls to inherit.
I know it sounds a little confusing, but I hope it helps! :) (hide spoiler)]
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AnnaI agree with the two previous answers - the curse laid on the king by Elizabeth Woodville. Though technically the curse is laid on the murderer of the princes, so you could interpret the title differently ie how the king curses the country or the Plantagenets under his rule. eg through the Tudor plague - the sweating sickness or his paranoid persecutions. Also if you look in the author's note Gregory adds an interesting aside about Kell's disease (which she doesn't use in the novel).
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