That is what blows me away the most in the Tudor line. So while many people would scoff and scorn, even make fun of Henry VIII for his nearly-insane desire to have a son (can we even call it insane if it is an instinct? If the pressure of royalty, of an entire country, is placed on a male and that instinct is twice as important, can we call him crazy?) on a primitive level, we all can understand and empathize with him. Through all the cultures in the world, they share a similar view about family girls marry out, their “roots” placed with their husband’s family while boys deepen their roots in the same place, in the same family, and expand with other sons. It was always important to add more and more branches to the family tree and the only way to do this was with sons. Ever since there has been life, there has been the instinct to reproduce.
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