#(I need to get into the Seymour subplot if I can ever write Rewrite The Stars again).

[mihrsuri]

Once news of the triad comes out, and people realize that Henry cheated on Thomas with Jane just as he cheated on Anne with her, there’s a strain of thought where people think that because Gregory Cromwell married Bess Seymour, he had some resentment against his father and married the affair partner’s sister as revenge.

actually I think the triad letters that are discovered by Maya Aburbeh (?) are in Gregory Cromwell’s possession? So maybe not, but there’s a Philippa Gregory-esque novel or two out there with that subplot

I had totally never thought of that my friend! (I know it’s a strong subplot that Gregory resents Henry but I could absolutely see like, either a homophobia plot line or a resentment for being ‘replaced’ plot line in an historical drama/fiction)*

*this is fundamentally in universe absolutely bullshit because there is ample documentation/letters/records of Gregory and his father being incredibly close all their lives and Gregory loving his half siblings (I think one thing I, Doylistically at least was always clear on was that the kids were the thing that everyone agreed on, even if they agreed on literally nothing else but in universe I could see some people turning Gregory into A Hater). Which is also funny because while he did worry about Unconventional New Family it was kind of directed at feeling like Henry and Anne maybe resented him (that’s a plot thread…)

(I only read the first Wolf Hall book and my memory is fuzzy but hmmm I wonder what Wolf Hall looks like in the OT3 verse)