hmmm the more i think abt it, the more the stories abt the commons being ‘grim’ or even outright booing anne boleyn’s coronation procession seems like Fake News.
like, even if i were like ’don’t like her, she seems like a bitch’…if i got free wine?
tbh I think a lot of the Tudors were actually good looking people regardless of any historical beauty standards. I’m including Henry VIII because of that one portrait you know the one
do you mean this one?
Yes.
The Venetian diplomat Sebastian Giustinian said that Henry was “extremely handsome” and “he had a beard which looks like gold and a complexion as delicate and fair as a woman’s.”
I think he also said that watching Henry play tennis was “the prettiest thing in the world” and something about how shapely his legs were. We stan.
going to go out on a limb and say…that saying if one disregards chapuys they have to disregard the spanish ambassadors re: h7 is…erroneous because it’s not really equitable.
firstable, i don’t totally disregard chapuys as an ambassador. i do not wholly trust him re: anne boleyn, and that’s very reasonable imo, as he seemed to have something of a vendetta against her.
it’s also not about disregarding everything he said about anne, but knowing it slants to the negative. this is especially important re: her legal innocence.
like, look, i’m sure the spanish ambassadors that reported on h7 were around as fallible and around as biased as, y’know, anyone is– but they were not anywhere near as pointedly and specifically biased against h7 [as chapuys was towards anne]. show me where they’re calling him a whore or a usurper in their dispatches and i’ll distrust them in regards to h7 and much as i distrust chapuys in regards to anne…but it’s not the case.
(this isn’t an omg-women-shouldn’t-put-up-with-this post btw, the reason i feel so strongly about this was that i was in a relationship where this happened to me and i didn’t stand up to it constantly myself),
i’m watching…this dude on this reality show, call his girlfriend a ‘bitch’ and ‘delusional’ (in couples’ therapy, no less…like if this is how you talk to her in the presence of a) cameras and b) the audience of a therapist, i can’t imagine how you talk to her in private) and just like……have honestly gotten to a point in my life where if i ever dated someone and they did that i would a) steal their credit card and buy myself 100 bottles of wine, b) text them to have a terrible day and c) break up with them on their birthday (if it so happened to be the next day like i would…………it would not stop me……if it was valentine’s, christmas, their birthday, whatever!!)
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