A-1,

Anne Boleyn was not beheaded because she failed to produce an heir. She was beheaded because of adultery which in Tudor England amounted to treason. Had this not occurred she almost certainly would have been divorced instead.

PS. I agree with you re: Diana Spencer. She was not 'low class' in the way that a slut is, but she was only from the lower ranks of the nobility. I agree that she was not treated very well by the Royal Family but it was almost certainly her greed and naivety which led to the situation in which she found herself. Like many others before her, she saw an opportunity to get married to someone seriously rich and jumped at it without realising all the baggage that went with it.

Colin,

Thank you. I stand corrected. Do you recall how many wives that, was it King Henry?, that married Anne, had? Wasn't it he who had several?

What I am driving at here is that if I had numerous wives who ended up having sexual liasions before we divorced, I would seriously consider looking into the reason. I would be worried about if I were contributing to the situations.

Re: Di, she was probably too young when she got married to Charles. I don't know. She bore him handsome children, however. Believe me, man or woman, the time to have children is when you are young. Preferrably, 30 or under. They are hard to raise and it takes a lot of energy and patience that are not in abundance after 40. Besides that, the chance of the occurance of birth defects increases significantly with age. It is true to some extent for fathering children at an advanced age, also.

XNoCTuRNaLRoSeX,

I did not follow this relationship too closely. It is impossible not to know something about it, however, because the news media provided too much coverage. I am not sure that Prince Charles never loved Dianna, though. I mean, she was so beautiful, and Prince Charles, only being human, well, let me say this.

I would have found it very, very hard not to have loved her were I in his position. I am not saying that the love continued throughout their relationship, obviously. He had to have loved her, even though he still carried feelings for Camillla.

It is a matter of opinion. When a man wants to go, or a woman wants to go for that matter and terminate a relationship, it is always counter-productive to lay fault. In affairs of the heart, whether or not they are adulturous, people always are hurt. It can't be blamed on the one who is the third party. It takes two two initiate such sexual unfaithfulness.

Adulturous affairs never make things better. They can only make things worse for everybody. Still, many, many people let their raging hormones overule their intellect and engage in such activities. It has become so commonplace in the Western world today that we do not give it a second thought.

People who do this have a shallowness that belies their ability to establish committments. It, to me, might be likened to a person who gets a little puppy and then later on abandons it because they are "tired" of the committment.

Still, just to say that it is not right is not enough. Judgmental attitudes do not help either. People become attracted to each other for many reasons. People who are "in love" and then lose their love may still be committed to a degree because of that love if it has developed a legal existance called "marriage".

Even when the legal committment is dissolved they may still have a committment called "children". Even if they never had a marriage "children" make them have something in common. The children can become a permanent reminder of a temporary feeling. Athough a "committment" is not required to make children it should be, if you profess to be human.

To me, there is nothing worse than a woman who goes to work in a hazardous area, who smokes or who drinks or who does drugs while pregnant and when asked if she is concerned about the baby says something like, "...well, I am just going to put the child up for adoption anyway." There is nothing worse than this, unless, of course, it is the idiotic bastard who knowing how she was, or even not knowing how she was, still impregnated her!

It is a terrible thing to be "in love" and to have that love affect other people. Still, that is the human condition. Whenever we fall in love it affects so many other people. Sometimes, it even creates other people.

Humanity would be so much better off if we could look at people as to their personalities. So many times we are so overwhelmed by their sexual attractiveness and sensuousness that we cannot possibly be practical in forming a relationship. Or, maybe, as has been implied, we become a "gold-digger". That is, we become involved for money.

We form our relationships for so many reasons. If we become oblivious to any factor that has a bearing on our lives, if we allow ourselves to let one factor control and rule our formation of relationships, the one that we usually hurt the worst is ourselves.

A-1

A-1,

Yes Henry had 6 wives and had he not died when he did might have had a seventh.

However, what is not often made clear is that he was married to Catherine of Aragon for around 20 years. (Perhaps Pueros, the historian could give the exact figure). Catherine had had several pregnancies but only Mary survived.

The driving force behind all of Henry's marriages was the need to produce a son. By the time that he was in his forties, he knew that time was running out for him. Which he why he got a bit desparate. If Elizabeth had been a boy, it is quite possible that Anne Boleyn might have saved her head.

Of course, by the time that he fathered Edward VI he was riddled with Syphilis which is what killed his son. I think that even the historians are not too sure when he caught the disease and he might not even have known about it at first.

LOL