[ SECRET POST #5417 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5417 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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[Monkey Island]


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03.
[Metroid Dread]


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[EatYourKimchi/Simon and Martina]


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[Were the World Mine]


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[this one was just text]


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Notes:

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

YES! HENRY VII STANS UNITE! Henry Tudor had an *extremely* dubious claim to the throne but he made it work, married Elizabeth of York who had a much better claim (and refused to remarry after her death) and set things up perfectly for a dynasty...only to have Henry VIII inherit.

[(Anonymous)]

Didn't he also invoke "by right of conquest" as well as by marriage and by descent, just to make sure he'd covered all the angles?

[(Anonymous)]

He did indeed, comparing himself to William the Conquerer. You'd think that declaring this would set him up for a lifetime of fending off challengers, but I think everyone was just so sick of civil war by then that it never happened.

[(Anonymous)]

IIRC he also intentionally carried out a policy of weakening all other major power centers to prevent potential challengers. One of the major problems for preceding dynasties was the number of powerful magnates and noblemen with their own independent power bases. A large part of the reason that Richard lost power is because he alienated pretty much all the significant factions, and a huge part of centralizing and modernizing the political system of England involved limiting their power and independence.

[(Anonymous)]

He did, and a lot of that policy was done by monetarily weakening all the other major powers through harsh but consistent taxation, so that no one lord could complain about being singled out. He famously went on a Royal Tour and stayed at a lord's home, and to look fancy, the lord dressed all his male servants in a flashy uniform. Henry admired them, then promptly taxed the lord at the rate for "maintaining a private army" rather than the lower "maintaining servants" rate.

[(Anonymous)]

DA - How do I not know all of these things? I was mildly obsessively interested in the British Monarchs as a late teen. I would have loved this kind of anecdote. (I mean, I still do, but teenage obsessions are a whole different thing.)