tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7534539169157708222.post1444925190064602592..comments2024-03-26T12:19:52.801-04:00Comments on Tea at Trianon: A Phantom Pregnancyelena maria vidalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17129629173535139807noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7534539169157708222.post-10651198583956948272010-05-24T09:24:43.012-04:002010-05-24T09:24:43.012-04:00Thank you for the additional information, Gareth!Thank you for the additional information, Gareth!elena maria vidalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17129629173535139807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7534539169157708222.post-22052114953794836252010-05-24T09:19:01.787-04:002010-05-24T09:19:01.787-04:00Yes! And there are still women today who have phan...Yes! And there are still women today who have phantom pregnancies.elena maria vidalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17129629173535139807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7534539169157708222.post-89778087489978293932010-05-24T09:10:12.526-04:002010-05-24T09:10:12.526-04:00G.W. Bernard and J. Dewhurst both suggest that Ann...G.W. Bernard and J. Dewhurst both suggest that Anne Boleyn suffered a phantom pregnancy in 1534, although a lot of other evidence points to it having been a genuine miscarriage at about the 7-month mark. David Starkey makes a very good case for Katherine of Aragon suffering from one, in the aftermath of an early term miscarriage, early in her marriage. Even going so far as to take to her chamber, much as her daughter was to do, years later, waiting for a baby that would never come.<br /><br />A really, tragic, tragic thing to happen to any woman. I think the waiting and the waiting for a baby that would never come is probably the worst thing to imagine. And the only one of Queen Mary's ladies-in-waiting to tell her the truth - that she wasn't really pregnant - was a woman called Frideswide Strelly (or Stelly... my memory's a bit faulty on that one.) And she suffered temporary disfavour, despite the fact that her fellow ladies-in-waiting were telling an unforgivably stupid lie to please their mistress!Gareth Russellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09102113677858015813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7534539169157708222.post-46888657233692904022010-05-24T06:57:54.147-04:002010-05-24T06:57:54.147-04:00I recently finished reading Linda Porter's bio...I recently finished reading Linda Porter's biography on Mary, The First Queen of England: The Myth of "Bloody Mary" and she goes into some detail on the phantom pregnancies as well. I feel so bad for Mary, even though she is long gone...as a woman and a monarch with all eyes on her, how humiliating that must have been for her!<br />Linda Porter tells us that Lady Lisle, who had many successful pregnancies, did have one phantom pregnancy after all of those so though it might have been rare, phantom pregnancies were not unheard of.Amber at The Musings of ALMYBNENRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16963815851597145235noreply@blogger.com