#compatibility; it's not even speaking to 'better of for england' bcus how the hell would i know
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💜 about henry? :)
my most forbidden unpopular opinion is that he probably would have been better off / happier if he hadn't married cathy of the pom.
#cue the screeches and calls for me to be burned as a witch#anyways this isn't me saying i think it was like particularly horrible to be married to her or anything; it's not even speaking to#compatibility; it's not even speaking to 'better of for england' bcus how the hell would i know#(there are actually a surprising number of catholics on the alternate history forum that say they also wish this but because#they think england would be better off if it never went into schism)#(and i don't care about that lol)#it's neither me saying 'and married to anne boleyn instead!!' bcus i don't really think that either#i think quite honestly tho if he had married another princess he would have been better off#even saying the reproductive tragedies / issues were 'his fault' (and they well could be; we just probably will never know)#most other princesses. if the same thing happened . probably would have acceded to an annulment#maybe not right away. but probably eventually?#what henry did was unusual (not the annulment attempt itself. but how far he went to gain one and render it secure / ironclad)#but what catherine did was also unusual...#i would say just looking at similar cases; most royal women would have taken a compromise at least like three years in.#not have just flatout refused for the remainder of their life#and yes; even if they had a daughter by the marriage.#/shrug#unpopular 2dor opinions#falconqueen#i know someone will read this as an indictment on her character#rather than just what it is.#an airing of an unpopular opinion about him#anyway my only qualm about this is that mary would not have existed.#and i love her... so. altho from a cerebral viewpoint that would be interesting#simply because it is like if everything shaped up the same way who then would stuart england vilify as the catholic tyrant.#maybe henry himself? we got a little of that from foxe
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