#but yeah the actual earl of northumberland (i feel like people forget this was henry percy's dad. at the time. he was just the heir)
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i've been thinking about this and i feel like the difference btwn anne and mary boleyn is actually most evident in the early 1520s; if anne had been more like mary she probably would have married percy regardless, damn the consequences. it doesn't make one 'better' than the other, i think just different...
altho sometimes i think mary's decision to wed stafford in 1534 in particular is understandable in context, it wasn't done to marry without royal consent of course but mary had been a widow for like six years and widows had a considerable amount of freedom in their marriage choices, certainly more than wards or women of nobility making their first marriage, had she not been the sister of the queen it might have been more easily forgiven.
also there's arguably precedent to some extent, she was hviii's sister in law whereas his actual sister had been able to make her own choice in her second marriage once widowed, of course she had to pay fines for this transgression and all this but she was invited back to court eventually after asking wolsey to intercede with her which parallels how mary wrote to cromwell, wolsey's 'successor' iyw, for her own intercession for royal forgiveness/mercy.
#but yeah the actual earl of northumberland (i feel like people forget this was henry percy's dad. at the time. he was just the heir)#being like oh you want to marry AB? well that's fine but i might just disinherit you and give my earldom to one of your brothers#probably made him a much less attractive candidate to anne herself and that's why im like were they more similar she wouldn't have cared#but it was likely a large part of his appeal . that he was set to inherit northumberland#i don't think percy wanted to inherit nothing just to marry anne and i don't think anne probably wanted to marry a man set to inherit nothi#saurrr....#idk i feel like it's made (AOTD effect) to be a star crossed lovers thing which just annoys me bcus there's couples from the tudor era#who fit this better; like margaret douglas and thomas howard for instance...#or the forbidden love trope ig.
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