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mary qos (from reign…or the hf too)

Ummm hmm bad taste in men (lol)? Bad decision-making at times. I also have chronic pain issues, as she did later in life. Can relate to her emotional turmoil, and also that she often actually physically collapsed when very upset– been there.

Unlike her in that she was said to be very charming, and I’m on the opposite end of the spectrum– awkward, not great at interactions and painfully shy. Nor am I especially religious.

šŸ„” (for your opinion on anything you feel like…i’m in the mood for some tea ;) )

i donā€™t feel like tv shows nowadays (for the most part, anyway) start with really good hooks anymore??

like fr, as an Elder, what happened to that?? i feel like tv pilots 1994-2007 began with incredible hooks to suck the viewer in, absolutely packed with twists and content, and now theyā€™re just likeĀ ā€˜weā€™re buildingā€¦weā€™re building tensionā€¦introducing all the charactersā€¦and buildingā€™ and my ADD self be like damn!! build a little faster!!!!!

šŸ‘‘!!

Preface it by saying this isnā€™t me knocking casual interest/ reading for fun (I myself have only shallow knowledge on several topics, and probably not much depth of knowledge for any except likeā€¦Tudor but not even all Tudor? Henrician but a pretty shallow understanding of Marian and Elizabethan eras)ā€¦

But if your end goal is the understanding of a particular figure at Henry VIIIā€™s court, like Thomas Cromwell or Anne Boleyn, you will eventually need to do some reading on Henry VIII as well. A few articles, and probably at least one biography focused on him at some point.Ā 

Personal dislike/hatred aside, youā€™re not going to have an adequate understanding of the workings of an intricate court if you totally sidestep/ignoreā€¦the figure at its center. This is true for whoever your favorite figure at his court is; but itā€™s especially true if that figure had a significant relationship with Henry.Ā 

Nor will you have one if you only do reading on the most notorious of his deeds.Ā 

What do you think Anne Boleyn’s accent was likely to be?

alicehoffmans:

Not something Iā€™ve done much reading on, so Iā€™m going to quote my friend here:

ā€œThe 16th century French accent was very close to current Canadian French. Itā€™s reinforced by the way Mantel has her saying ā€œCromwellā€ with a French accent. ā€œCremuelā€ is Cromwell with a French Canadian accent.ā€ ā€“ @towyns

Thereā€™s also a thread on this at AB Files.Ā 

Her potential birthdate could influence how strong her French accent was, also. If she was around 12 when she left to serve Margaret of Austria, her English accent was probably very strong and firmly-set (meaning, even if she learned and became fluent in French, she would still speak English as she had, without a French accent). If she was born in 1507, her French accent would be strong because she spent earlier formative years there, and had only been fluent in her own native tongue for a few years.Ā 

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@maharanis She most likely didnā€™t! At that point in her life she had lived in England far longer than sheā€™d ever lived in Spain.

There was an account of her speaking in a thick Spanish accent during Blackfriars. Imo this was calculated to lend credence to her claim of being ā€œa poor woman and a stranger born out of your dominionā€ during her famously remembered speech.

Especially because there are no other accounts of her speaking with this thick accent during this timeā€¦ambassadorial accounts usually mentioned details like that.