#i also need to reread both to check typoes and like. resituate

[boleynqueenes]

Hii! Hope you’re doing well, I was wondering if you might have a snippet of the next Nowe Thus update to share? I just recently did a full reread so I’m just 👀 for any crumbs I can get 😅🩵

I'm doing alright, other than that I've been working a lot and it's somewhat drained my energy, creative and otherwise...

I have been doing snippets on my free days, tho, like today:

By the coming years, he has outgrown the need for any nurse, and as such Lady Luke transfers her care to the little would-be Earl of Devon (none will tell Henry why at that age, nor where the Courtenay patriarch has gone, nor how this has made his son a royal ward, he will not discover the reason until later). But they exchange gifts come New Year's every year without fail, and she is recalled to do the same thankless task in the coming years: it is she who tells the Duke that the Prince of Wales has died, she, the next, who tells him the Queen, likewise. Each time, she holds his hand. His father never does.

tl;dr borman has posited that it was one of his father's councilors who told him of the deaths of arthur & his mother, but i tried to think of why it might be that his childhood nurse was paid, as is mentioned in several biographies, an 'unusually generous pension' until her death, throughout his own reign.

also for the upcoming scenes, i thought it was important to contextualize henry as someone who lost three siblings and both parents by seventeen, and five of his own children by thirty (altho i've already contextualized that in the series, that's worthy of its piece imo).

weir made the comment that mid-1536 and 1537 henry had 'a family life for the first time in years' once (which is a weird comment, given it seems to exist in a world in which princess elizabeth & henry fitzroy the duke of richmond, did not exist), but it stuck with me bcus that's true in a way but more of the outset of his reign... absent his sister at court and one abroad, and very briefly his grandmother as regent, before she too dies, henry really doesn't have any (close) family when he comes to the throne. the immediate marriage to begin one can be better understood in this light, wolsey becoming a father substitute, and his immediate elevation of the poles and the courtenay heir mentioned here, etc...

and it's just ultimately so tragic and explains the tragedy of hviii better, that he then alienates almost all his family (or as he would see it, they 'betrayed' him) from him.