i know reign takes place in an alternate universe partly inspired by philippa gregory novels and partly by the kind of paperback ~historic~ romance novels you can buy for like 50 cents at garage sales and i should accept that but…knowing what i do esp. about 16th cent. history makes it kind of hard to enjoy at times sksksksk?
part of the alternate universe acts like the execution of two of h8′s wives suddenly set the ‘standard’ for europe/that they all follwed suit; re: that every other country decided that all you needed was an adultery accusation to have grounds for executing a queen consort….
even though adultery wasn’t enough in england; anne was executed on (false, we all now know) the grounds of treason (’planning to kill the king’), adultery, and incest. for katherine it was still treason, it just had to involve them changing the law to define what treason was…….
my point being that whole premise is based on a big/common misconception anyway; that their only charges were adultery or that adultery was enough to constitute treason…much less that the rest of europe followed suit to how the laws had been amended to redefine treason in england, anyway.
but then i remember the soap opera antics, the poisoned bible plot twist and all the batshit others, and the wily binch reels me back in…….
me, recognizing earrings i’ve seen at claire’s:
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