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fideidefenswhore · 5 months

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How different our history could have proved had Henry married his mistress Mary – a county-loving girl with no pretentions of power and who delivered him a son out of wedlock.

my therapist: pgregified history is not real and it can't hurt you.

me: *slides this article across the table like a $1 bill*

#i think they mean country but agtgrqfvshjfs #pretensions?? WHO WROTE THISSJKADNFDSLF #the portrayal of mary as a woman that disdained court life and only desired 'simple living'#is A) really narratively boring and B) not in the least borne out by the evidence we have.....#backlash against feminism ftw ig #'wouldn't it just be so dreamy if the woman upon who we have projected having 'no ambition' became queen #and was rewarded for her docile self-abnegation and humility by the crown....wheee'#also this line of reasoning im just...? reasons it would have been better for mary boleyn to be queen > bessie blount?#what are they?

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