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fideidefenswhore · 6 months ago

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@glorianas & it just straight up does not work, it might make more sense if the anti-boleyn faction had had a royal marriage in mind, like warwick for edward iv…. but it’s an odd chess-play, to push forward the seymours just because jane happens to be his mistress. you’re so incensed at the upstart nobles becoming royal so you want … the gentry, to become royal?

#glorianas #there’s even an argument that well like henry they wanted him to have a legitimate prince for England but didn’t believe that was possible #with Anne which is like … okaaay but England is still in schism ?#edward vi wasn’t really recognized as legitimate by much of papal Europe either #I feel like if they really wanted a papal restoration and Mary to wed a pole and be restored as heiress and all that #that their game makes … little sense . like what WAS the long game #did they want henry to have a son to inherit or did they want Mary to inherit ?#Why was it they unified behind the Seymours rather than a French or imperial alliance ?#I wonder if none of them really had the pensions or the clout to make those necessary plays #asking how many eligible royal brides whatever kingdom had and if they might want to be Queen of England …#the problem also is this all happened in darkness #like one of Henry’s bishops wouldn’t even answer the question of whether his marriage with Anne could be annulled #unless it came from the king himself #so once you ask that question your armor’s gone. it’s clear what you’re about #and it’s treason.#replies

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