Sorry for this long break, but here I am again to write the second part of Enrique's bio.
As Bell said, Enrique liked to go out in disguise, but he started to turn more and more reserved each day. His marriage was not an unhappy and, although he was proud of his beautiful wife, he was afraid of her personality. Juana was in contstant movement, and she was a decisive woman, something to which Enrique was not used to. By 1460 the Court was concerned because the king's second marriage hadn't produced any children. People gossiped about the King being impotent or homosexual. The arrival of special Moor doctors increased the suspicions.
On February 28th 1462 a daughter, Juana, was born. Surprisingly enough, she was declared Princess of the Asturias few days later. Her aunt, infanta Isabel, was made her godmother. The fact that they named Juana Princess so early after her birth, without waiting for the birth of a prince (the king was 37 and the queen was 23, so they were still young enough!), made that suspicions grew even more. The Court believed that the baby had been really fathered by Enrique's favourite, don Beltrán de la Cueva, Juana's lover (it was rumoured that he was also Enrique's lover!). Juana would become pregnant again and it was attributed to Enrique, but she miscarried a son in July 1465.
Two different groups were starting to be created at Court. One of them was loyal to the king, the others denounced the king's little interest in State affairs and his consentment to his wife's dissolute life. In 1467 Juana started a relationship with don Pedro de Castilla (1436-1499), one of her stewards, who was an illegitimate great-grandson of Pedro I the Cruel of Castile. Pregnant, she was taken to Alcalá de Henares, when on August 5th 1468 she gave birth to a healty son, Pedro Apóstol de Castilla (1468-1506). By that stage she hadn't been living with Enrique for months and she was taken in custody to Buitrago, where she lived with her lover, her daughter Juana and her son. Enrique had disinherited his supposed daughter and had made his half-sister Isabel the new heiress (their brother Alfonso died in 1468 after being an usurper King in some parts of Castile). In 1469, however, Isabel disobeyed Enrique by marrying Fernando of Aragon and Enrique, in 1470 decided to make an alliance with the French and name Juana the heiress again. In the Treaty of Val de Lozoya, Enrique saw his wife again after three years of living apart. They were friendly to each other, despite the fact the Juana was 7 months pregnant (she tried to disguise it with her dresses). Enrique said he believed Juana (who was called "la beltraneja" because the name of her purported father) his daughter and Juana of Portugal said that she "thought" that Juana was Enrique's daughter.
Next December (30/12/1470) Juana gave birth to a second son, Andrés de Castilla (1470-1529) in Buitrago de Lozoya. Locked up in a castle, her sexual life acted against her daughter's claim, she managed to escape with her lover. Enrique was constantly hating or making peace with Isabel, while no one asked infanta Juana what her wishes were. When Enrique died on December 11th, 1474, aged 49, Juana of Portugal had been shut away in a convent. War broke between Portugal whose king Alfonso V supported his niece Juana of Castile's claim, and most of Castile, which supported Isabel, who had proclaimed herself queen.
Juana of Portugal hadn't seen her daughter for three years, and she never saw her again. Eloped from the convent again, she was again shut away in a convent of Madrid, the convent of Saint Francis, nowadays dissapeared. Pregnant again, she died after a miscarriage on the 13th June 1475, aged 36. We said something of Juana of Castilè's fate in other thread. I would like to add that Juana la Beltraneja was very probably, in my opinion, Enrique's daughter. She was tall, blonde, and blue-eyed, like Enrique. Neither Juana of Portugal, who was very dark, nor Beltrán de la Cueva, had those features.
About the queen's bastards, they were brought up by Isabel the Catholic, and they were refered to as "the queen's sons". They both married and had issue, that has survived until nowadays.
