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== Issue == {| class="wikitable" |- ! Name !! Birth !! Death !! Notes |- | [[Elizabeth I]] || 7 September 1533 || 24 March 1603 || Never married, no issue |- | Miscarriage or false pregnancy<ref name=":2">Eustace Chapuys wrote to Charles{{nbsp}}V on 28{{nbsp}}January reporting that Anne was pregnant. A letter from George Taylor to Lady Lisle dated 27{{nbsp}}April 1534 says that "The queen hath a goodly belly, praying our Lord to send us a prince". In July, Anne's brother, Lord Rochford, was sent on a diplomatic mission to France to ask for the postponement of a meeting between Henry VIII and Francis I because of Anne's condition: "being so far gone with child she could not cross the sea with the king". Chapuys backs this up in a letter dated 27{{nbsp}}July, where he refers to Anne's pregnancy. We do not know what happened with this pregnancy as there is no evidence of the outcome. Dewhurst writes of how the pregnancy could have resulted in a miscarriage or stillbirth, but there is no evidence to support this, he therefore wonders if it was a case of pseudocyesis, a false pregnancy, caused by the stress that Anne was under β the pressure to provide a son. Chapuys wrote on 27{{nbsp}}September 1534 "Since the king began to doubt whether his lady was enceinte or not, he has renewed and increased the love he formerly had for a beautiful damsel of the court". Muriel St Clair Byrne, editor of the Lisle Letters, believes that this was a false pregnancy too.</ref> ||colspan=2 style="text-align: center;" |Summer 1534<ref>{{harvnb|Porter|2007|p=337}}</ref>|| |- | Possible miscarriage || colspan="2" style="text-align: center;" | 1535<ref name=":3">The only evidence for a miscarriage in 1535 is a sentence from a letter from Sir William Kingston to Lord Lisle on 24 June 1535 when Kingston says "Her Grace has as fair a belly as I have ever seen". However, Dewhurst thinks that there is an error in the dating of this letter as the editor of the Lisle Letters states that this letter is actually from 1533 or 1534 because it also refers to Sir Christopher Garneys, a man who died in October 1534.</ref> || |- | Miscarried son ||colspan=2 style="text-align: center;" | 29 January 1536<ref name=":4">Chapuys reported to Charles V on 10 February 1536 that Anne Boleyn had miscarried on the day of Catherine of Aragon's funeral: "On the day of the interment [of Catherine of Aragon] the concubine [Anne] had an abortion which seemed to be a male child which she had not borne 3 1/2 months".</ref> || |}
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