OH NM I FOUND IT (I’m SUCH a baller…anyway):
Oh gosh I’m sorry…..
I’m not at home rn (I think…I read this in Antonia Fraser’s Six Wives and then from there searched the quote and found it #confirmed in the archives) but if memory serves; Henry VIII in like…somewhere in the ballpark 1529-1532 essentially announced (to his privy council? I think) that his desire to remarry was not at all motivated by lust.
And basically he was like: “If you think that it is just know……I’m not young anymore…..I’m 40 so what even is lust, lads
Never felt that…….never experienced that…….emotion.”
“The King had assured his Parliament at the beginning of the 1530s that he was not proposing to marry Anne Boleyn out of any self-indulgent passion:
‘For I am….forty-one years old, at which age the lust of man is not so quick as in lusty youth.’”
tl;dr
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