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edmundhoward · 3 months

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Love that we're blaming Jane for Anne and the other men's deaths, she was a wild woman after all lol. Honestly though whenever I see that take I'm like how many deaths are we now allowed to lay at Anne and Elizabeth's feet? All those people that refused to sign the oath of succession?

you see, it’s different, because one was judicial murder to facilitate a regime change and the other was legal execution where the forced submission to a regime change failed. very different!

#but you see all the imprisonment and death on anne’s behalf were justifiable because anne’s marriage was inherently valid!!#because anne and her marriage was inherently good and just #whereas there’s no evidence of an ideological incentive for jane’s marriage so those deaths were just for her personal gain #(we have no evidence of her wanting those deaths for personal gain either but we won’t mention that!)#marriage and monarchy aren’t constructs when we like the people involved you see #i love when i get ab crit asks i feel like a farmer looking over his bountiful harvest #ab fandom #💿🐴#chitchat #to be clear i do not think it’s reasonable to blame anne boleyn exceptionally for the oath etc.#it’s too simplistic a take #when such actions were necessary to uphold and protect her #but very simply: if such is required to uphold someone’s wealth and power… the system is repugnant #it’s not principally anne’s fault or even an issue unique to her #however!!! it is hugely hypocritical to single jane out here …#they both participated in and profited from a monstrous institution that they both seem to have #ideologically bought into #but only one of them lived long enough to feel the consequences and only one of them left any indication of personal agency #it wasn’t jane.

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