But just when the whole nation was rejoicing, believing that the Kingdom finally had an heir, the ever-diligent court steward, while checking the King and Queen's daily records, discovered something. Although the royal couple had indeed spent time together during that period, it was also the Church-mandated forty-day fasting period.
For Enrique IV, a traditionally conservative devotee who always revered the Church, it would have been utterly impossible to consort with his wife on such significant days. No need for prophecy or divination to declare that the Queen must be adulterous!
Even if Enrique IV, swallowing his pride and bitterness, wished to wear this cuckold's cap himself to redeem the royal dignity, he could not.
