Did Anne Boleyn give birth to a deformed baby?
“In January 1536, Anne had a son but unfortunately he was born dead. What is more, the baby was badly deformed. This was a serious matter because in Tudor times Christians believed that a deformed child was God’s way of punishing parents for committing serious sins. Henry feared that people might think that the Pope was right when he claimed that God was angry because Henry had divorced Catherine and married Anne.