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"If Henry VIII were allowed to have multiple concurrent wives, the chances that some of them would have had a healthy firstborn boy would have been much higher." I wonder if Henry ever considered changing that rule. Probably not--although he was pretty close to an absolute monarch, it was probably understood that this applied only as long as he operated within a certain traditional framework.

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