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4 years ago

Gonna go ahead and say that this is ridiculously oversimplified.

The funny thing about Tudor history? Most of the main players are open to interpretation, discussed and can, perhaps, be redeemed.

Anne Boleyn: “Eh, she was complicated.”

Princess Mary: “Well, she did have a messed up childhood and her own father seemed on the verge of killing her sometimes. No wonder she went mad.”

Cromwell: As Hilary Mantel argues, he was simply making the best of a bad situation and coping with a tyrannical boss.

Katharine Howard: “Just a foolish teenage girl in way over her head.”

But no one, historians or otherwise, ever really made a proper defense of Henry VIII. Because they can’t. He was a sociopathic self-indulgent man-child who ruined a lot of lives needlessly.

Even The Tudors television show (which tried to present the man as somewhat human) didn’t argue too much on this point.

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where even to begin did mary i ‘go mad’ ? for one . there’s not much to suggest she wasn’t perfectly lucid while shaping her religious policy if that’s what you’re getting at lol idt being upset your husband has jettisoned off qualifies as ‘madness’ for the last point have historians tried to defend henry viii from some of his worst deeds? they sure have arguably they shouldn’t but more often many have explanations and theories for his behavior an explanation does not necessarily = a defense this is the issue of using fandom rhetoric to analyze historic figures. it doesn’t work oh and Katharine Howard wasn’t especially foolish and wasn’t in over her head she was an excellent queen consort that made some unwise decisions as qc that yes ultimately doomed her cus some narc snitched on her lol anyways !! anyways .

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