after the untimely deaths of five, count 'em, FIVE of his (completely made-up, by me), sons (nine, ferdie, arthur, greensleeves, and harold), the king uprooted the rest of his (legitimate) family and moved to a new house.
when sims move to a new house, the ghosts of those who died in their previous house do not follow them. they disappear. the ghosts of those five princes -- not to mention anne boleyn, jane seymour, and a maid who died in the yard of we don't even know what -- had become too much to handle. you could barely move in that house!
so the king moved, with elizabeth and edward in tow, into a smaller house, only two houses away from the pre-queen holding pen, where the king's illegitimate daughters maxine, peak frean, and mushy pea, also live with their mother, bessie blount. the king's eldest daughter mary -- married to portrait painter hans holbein -- lives a little further away in the neighborhood.
the first thing the king needed of course was to marry again. after a rather back-and-forth courtship with anne of cleves, there was a wedding.
edward, history tells us, had the same sickly constitution as his mother, jane seymour. so did our edward. he died of the same "sickness" as jane -- that is, the sickness of swimming in pools with no ladders.
i did not know you could do it! i thought for sure child services would show up and intervene! but in the name of england i had to try. and what do you know, it worked. the problem was that the scary blue ghost of little edward not only walks the halls of the new little house -- and the yard -- he FLOODS them with puddles of water as a reminder of his untimely and treacherous manner of death!
but, we must move forward. forward with the bloodline. once again, somehow, henry had NO sons. lost all SIX somehow. imagine the excitement then at the birth of "clive of cleves".
but anne of cleves isn't a beautiful woman and she's not getting any younger. and henry is rather fond of that jailbait katherine howard. and he expresses his admiration for her in the usual fashion.
anne, still queen, and pissed at henry about this bold dalliance, grows complacent about her hair and makeup. she also gets a bad case of food poisoning from some nasty pop-tarts and grilled cheese.
meanwhile: the princess elizabeth is head over heels in love with mary queen of scots! she dyes her hair to match his and they go steady. in fact, the new palace is so relaxed that mary queen of scots stays overnight with elizabeth frequently! (but also very innocently.)
henry soon gives the ratty-ass anne of cleves the heave-ho. and in one of those eerie sims free-will moments, whenever katherine howard enters a room, henry gives her a wolf whistle. but that little blue, drippy edward-ghost is too much for the house to handle and the king orders the castle razed, and rebuilds it, with the best, and most forward-thinking interior decorators that his century has to offer. and boy are they good!
and katherine howard gives birth to a daughter, the princess howard anne. katherine and henry are not married -- i forgot to do it. there is still time. expect of course that katherine will start knocking boots with someone other than the king -- but who? there are so few available. it'll have to be some male domestic, some sim that came with the game. hmmm.
there's lots more to tell -- about the death of marie de guise, about the suitors from faraway shores -- very moneyed suitors (one of them showed up in a stretch hummer, actually), of illegitimate daughters maxine, peak frean, and mushy pea. but, right now, it's time to go to the gym.