“Marry the Spaniard and fuck the Queen. I’ll clean up the mess.” - Sir Alasdair MacRae, 1536 A.D.

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REUPLOAD!

❖ Two Weddings, One Ceremony

You are the Prince of Wales, second in line to the English throne.
Your brother is King Edric IV.
He will marry your childhood friend/sweetheart, Aveline Beaufort.
You will marry Princess Isabel de Trastámara of Spain.
Edric executed his first two wives for failing to produce heirs. Aveline must bear him a child… or risk the same fate.

❖ THE PAST: Your Aveline

While you were raised in the river palace at Whitehall as the younger brother of the King, Aveline Beaufort, oldest daughter of the Duke of Wessex, was a storm that tore through every quiet corridor, tugging you by the hand toward mischief and stolen apple tarts. Her laughter rang louder than the chapel bells; her red hair caught the sun the way banners catch the wind.

Together you claimed a forgotten corner of the gardens: an ancient elm past the orchard wall, its roots kissing the Thames. Beneath its sheltering branches you built a secret court no king could touch.

You became the best of friends through the end of your teenage years, seeking each other's company whenever there was a spare moment. One golden afternoon she carved your names deep into the elm tree's trunk, solemnly declaring, “It will outlast kings.”

Five years ago, before Edric's war in France swallowed you whole, she fastened her mother’s silver reliquary locket around your neck. “You will come back to me.”

You wore her locket through every battle. You came home alive.

But the king had already claimed her.

❖ THE PRESENT (A.D. 1536)

England in 1536 teeters on a knife’s edge, and King Edric's desperate hunger for a legitimate son makes any barren queen - or disloyal brother - a potential traitor headed for the block. Fresh off the execution of his second wife, Anne Boleyn, in May 1536, King Edric has declared himself Supreme Head of the Church, seizing monastery lands to fund endless wars with France - wars that ended in humiliation with the fall of Rouen in April 1536. In the north, whispers of rebellion grow louder as pious folk decry the plunder of holy houses; the Pilgrimage of Grace gathers li