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fideidefenswhore · 1 year ago

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[Admiral Chabot] had come, not to replace to Treaty of Mutual Aid with a dynastic alliance offering the prospect of a future closer tie between [England & France], but because Charles [V] was offering the French king generous concessions concerning his claim to the Duchy of Milan if he successfully arranged a marriage between the Dauphin and [Princess] Mary [...] Chabot was nonplussed when Anne insisted that it must be [Princess] Elizabeth-- not her stepdaughter-- who should marry one of Francis [I]'s sons. Henry too said the Admiral must be joking in proposing Mary as the bride.

Hunting the Falcon: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn & the Marriage That Shook Europe, John Guy & Julia Fox

#yeah i kind of...hate? how the tudors portrayed the chabot debacle #as if anne & henry were simply humiliated and conceded and henry maybe even privately agreed #when their true response was 'you are not serious people'#(henry above and anne disinviting chabot from the banquet she was hosting)#even portraying it as if it coincided with the threat of lowering her as far as he'd raised her which was chapuys report of 1533 #they even push that element of henry privately being in agreement till the end which is....#weird? like partially for elizabeth i suppose eventually #but not for mary. he repudiated them both as legitimate successors #and restored them both later but as illegitimate ones #*end of s2. his weird comment to anne during that banquet saying she should care more about her stepdaughter's betrothal?#i never even got what they were trying to communicate with that #that the jousting accident had made him wonky /disjointed in rhetoric or with memory gaps or slips?#or that he was just trying to insult/ 'test' her #especially since in the same scene he abruptly turns from uxorious and conciliatory and praising anne and elizabeth #to snapping at her for wanting their daughter betrothed?#john guy #julia fox #anne boleyn #henry viii

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