The Sweating Sickness
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- I've got to get out of here!
- The king flees...
- Hampton Court - 1528
- Hello London! Tis I, your new king, Henry Tudor!
- King Henry VII enters London as the new king following his victory at the Battle of Bosworth Field.
- London - 1485
- Two weeks later a sudden illness appears.
- Ye Olde Doctor
- An illness is ravaging the city...
- Twas fine at dinner!
- The disease causes extreme fever, sweating, and death within hours.
- He's sweating uncontrollably
- ...The patients sweat the life from their bodies!!!
- News reaches Cardinal Wolsey at the royal court.
- A sweating sickness...?
- Unlike other epidemics, this disease begins to claim members of the royal court.
- Your Majesty, an epidemic seems to have followed you into the castle...
- Physicians theorize possible causes from eating too much meat, unnatural weather patterns, and bad smells.
- A 50% survival rate results in thousands of deaths across the kingdom.
- However, the outbreaks last only a few weeks.
- Ye Olde Doctor
- It's over?!
- The king's mistress contracts the disease forcing the king to flee Hampton Court.
- The sweating sickness has returned... Prince Arthur has succumbed...
- 17 years later...
- Lord, help us.
- The sweating sickness claims the life of the heir to the throne. Changing the line of succession, and Britain's history, forever.
- Henry is now next in line to be king...
- Hampton Court - 1528
- This disease will not interfere with my plans for the kingdom.
- Mistress Boleyn has fallen ill with the disease which killed your brother.
- The king changes residences frequently to outrun the epidemic. He isolates and refuses to see anyone, including the Pope and other heads of state.
- I shall isolate myself until this epidemic passes.
- As a result, isolation saves the king from the disease and he continues his reign.
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