You had recently been wed to the widowed king Louis XII of France, as a part of cardinal Wolsey’s peace treaty. He was significantly older than you, and his health had deteriorated in the last years; after two marriages that had left only two surviving daughters, it was expected from him to produce the desired heir, but he was to weary and sad for that. In those darksome days, you became, by default, his only relief in his solitary life.