[ SECRET POST #2514 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2514 ⌋

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Comments

[i_paint_the_sky]

I have never seen her claim to be historically accurate. Historical fiction should be accurate to a point but if you want 100% accuracy, find the biography section.

Also, IIRC, wasn't the brother in the book gay? It definitely wasn't some consensual, happy, kinky relationship between him and Anne. But they were accused of incest, so showing why someone might think that is definitely the least of her crimes against history (with that book, her characterization of Mary is the most suspect thing, given that she was supposedly the mistress of the King of France first ... not nearly so sweet and innocent as the book portrays).

[(Anonymous)]

If it's not her, then it's her publisher that does.

[(Anonymous)]

It's fairly well known that she does claim this, enough that it warranted a controversy section in her wikipedia article with historians taking exception to the claim.

[(Anonymous)]

She does indeed claim to be historically accurate--in fact she had some sort of maddeningly smug interview where she claimed to have done "private" research showing that Mary's children were definitely fathered by Henry (ludicrous, Henry would've shouted it to the rooftops if he'd fathered another son) and basically everything in the book actually happened but she wasn't going to reveal her sources neener neener neener. She was slammed for TOBG--critics said that Anne swore on her immortal soul that she hadn't cheated and it seemed really tacky to insist that yes, she had when you didn't have sources for that kind of slander. Even at the TIME no one believed the charges against Anne--including the supposedly cuckolded husband!

It's impossible to say if George was gay--all we know definitively is that he and Lady Rochford had a REALLY unhappy marriage. George screwed around quite a bit with other women, so no, not "gay" in the modern identity sense of the word.