[ SECRET POST #4503 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4503 ⌋

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Comments

[sparklywalls]

Entertainment doesn't often have time to pay attention to the historical reasons for a person's story being much more nuanced and Anne Boleyn gets this perhaps more than most because the monarch she was involved in was ripe for writers/TV producers/film makers etc. Everyone knows Henry VIII "because he had six wives" and it's such a well-worn path it feels like the only way to make your adaption stand out is to be even more scandalous than the others in some way.

It is really lazy though to act like it was all on her being a power hungry bitch. I punch the air when I see acknowledgement that *any* of the wives couldn't exactly tell the king to shove it. See also: Catherine Howard gets maligned as well as some sort of empty headed slut.

[(Anonymous)]

I hear you re: Catherine Howard. She didn't have the sharpest social and political acumen, but geez, look at her semi-feral upbringing. She was groomed to be a pawn for her family and married off to a man more than old enough to be her father.

[sparklywalls]

I have so many arguments with my own mother about this! She always circles back to "well, she wasn't the sharpest knife if she thought playing away from the king was a good idea" and I'm always gobsmacked. I have to point out she was what, 17? Possibly even younger. Henry was much older, obese and probably smelled due to ulcers on his legs. I think film and TV adaptions have convinced everyone Henry was still hot at this point and they don't try to imagine how it would feel for a teenage girl to be in that situation.

[(Anonymous)]

That would annoy me so much! Catherine Howard was 17 or perhaps even younger than that when they were married, it wasn't a love match and Henry was already older and not in great physical shape and HELLO HE'D ALREADY BEHEADED HER COUSIN. Was she a genius? No. But from the sound of it, she was starved for love and attention as a child. It was a disaster in the making.