not a new thought because i’m pretty sure that i’ve talked about it before, but the idea that henry viii ‘just did whatever he wanted all the time with no thought to what was best for england’ is like…..not true.
idk i just feel like timing gets ignored a lot; like did he ask for an annulment in 1522 or 1523 or 1524? no, he arranged for the betrothal of charles v and mary so that potentially their future issue could inherit, and that fell through by 1525 (not the first betrothal for her that had, and she wasn’t to be of marriageable age for some time, btw) and then he asked for an annulment.
and tbh, even when he was at his worst, he was canvassing theological opinion from both evangelicals and conservatives before deciding on church doctrine so that alone pretty much proves he didn’t just ‘do whatever he wanted all the time’ without asking for outside opinion….
also if he ‘just did whatever he wanted’ he wouldn’t have married AOC after their disastrous first meeting.
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