Hm, I’m not a huge fan or it, honestly? Probably just because these were real people and figures and like…it just rubs me the wrong way. Royal arranged marriages are one thing, but Anne marrying Charles, who she hated, even in fiction seems wrong to me (like I love my fic Charles Brandon’s in Modern AU’s but they’re mine only slightly inspired by Tudors and I know that wasn’t what he was really like, the real CB I am none too fond of) and for that reason I wouldn’t read it.

And George Boleyn and Mary just seems weird tbh; he’s marrying his (ex? or no?) brother-in-law’s daughter? It’s not as incestuous as some marriages and it’s not by blood I know but…odd. Also she wasn’t too fond of the Boleyns, so that strikes me as very Break the Cutie trope which is one I hate. It would potentially be interesting from the perspective of them being of different religious beliefs; but I’d rather read that tension platonically. 

Idk, this is very nitpicky probably, but there were plenty of dub-consensual relationships in this era and at this court that were real, like Elizabeth Holland (his wife’s launderess, who was likely very young) and Thomas Howard, for instance, that I wouldn’t want to read AU relationship fics for the same. 

I honestly haven’t noticed this trend, but I only read fic on AO3. Has it become popular on FF.net?