This From Someone That Is Not Really A Katherine Of Aragon 'fan' Even! - Tumblr Posts

3 years ago

The example that came to mind for this was actually Julia Fox, because when she talks about the first time Henry told KoA he was seeking an annulment, and that “all would be for the best”, and how she cried when he told her this, she was like “oh she was probably using tears to manipulate him” and I was like.......uhm....that seems...decidedly unkind?

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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