1502: The Death of Prince Arthur
This account is from a contemporary herald's report,
first published in 1715.
When his Grace [Henry VII] understood that sorrowful heavy tydings,
he sent for the Queene [Elizabeth of York], saying that he and his Queene
would take the painful sorrows together. After that she was come
and saw the Kyng her Lord, and that naturall and paineful sorrowe, as I
have heard saye, she with full great and constant comfortable words besought
his Grace that he would first after God remember the weale of his own noble
person, the comfort of his realme and of her. She then saied that
my Lady his mother had never no more children but him only, and that God
by his Grace had ever preserved him, and brought him where he was.
Over that, howe that God had left him yet a fayre Prince, two fayre Princesses
and that God is where he was, and we are both young ynoughe.
...Then his Grace of true gentle and faithful love, in good hast came
and relieved her, and showed her howe wise counsell she had given him before,
and he for his parte would thanke God for his sonn, and would she should
doe in like wise.
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