If He Had Especial Remorse Or Had Felt Like He'd Been Manipulated Into Doing So - Tumblr Posts
4 years ago
It’s oddly reminiscent of how some historians speak about Anne Boleyn, and like, not in a good way-- I’m thinking here of how Starkey wrote about how she “wheedled, pleaded, and cried” to effectively berate~ Henry into exiling Katherine from court/his presence.
I find it weird when Katherine of Aragon biographers try to shoehorn in her being ‘Machiavellian’, like…I think she was politically gifted, I think she used her networks well, I think she knew how to utilize her public moments for public sympathy/approval (famously, like Blackfriars) but sometimes I feel like biographers apply this…weirdly, to private moments?
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which is always like....ok lol
playing devil's advocate and saying i agree.
he never wavered from that afterwards? so.
if he had especial remorse or had felt like he'd been manipulated into doing so
you'd think he would've had a come to jesus moment
in the next five years re: never seeing koa again
and no i do not count sander saying he cried over her last letter (which there is debate about its authenticity! even)
bcus it is sander