I'd like to say that this talk,or friendly chat has given me an altered perspective on a couple of aspects of this relatively well known story. One,I wonder if Henry's advisors knew and persuaded him that he had to make his case against Anne extra-horrific and monstrous in order to not make his decision to "put away" his first wife seem,to the common people even more disloyal and reprehensible than a great many people already privately thought it was. I do believe that Queen Katharine was admired by "the common folk" for her devoted loyalty and her refusal to countenance her dismissal. And many wives must have thought that letting a man discard a wife just because he fancied a newer model was not a great idea to make a legal reality even if it happened back then by some subterfuge or another.
Two: I'd never really given much thought to when The Tower of London ceased to be a Royal residence. Id never really thought of any of them LIVING there,even William The Conqueror. But I can see that Henry VIII would never have wanted to stay there ever and I can see why Elizabeth would have had no love for the place,over and above her actually having been a Prisoner there herself. I do think that means,spiteful nasty touch of having Anne a prisoner in the same suite in which she had lived all bedecked with flowers before her wedding is all Henry. It must have been his very own nasty idea to make himself feel less stupid than he must have actually felt. He knew nobody dared say anything but to put away the wife everybody likes for one they don't like but then to treat her so terrible that people start having sympathy for her too...!! I bet the young man,the Percy heir who Anne probably would have married was counting himself lucky to escape being implicated.
I'd like to say that this talk,or friendly chat has given me an altered perspective on a couple of aspects of this relatively well known story. One,I wonder if Henry's advisors knew and persuaded him that he had to make his case against Anne extra-horrific and monstrous in order to not make his decision to "put away" his first wife seem,to the common people even more disloyal and reprehensible than a great many people already privately thought it was. I do believe that Queen Katharine was admired by "the common folk" for her devoted loyalty and her refusal to countenance her dismissal. And many wives must have thought that letting a man discard a wife just because he fancied a newer model was not a great idea to make a legal reality even if it happened back then by some subterfuge or another.
Two: I'd never really given much thought to when The Tower of London ceased to be a Royal residence. Id never really thought of any of them LIVING there,even William The Conqueror. But I can see that Henry VIII would never have wanted to stay there ever and I can see why Elizabeth would have had no love for the place,over and above her actually having been a Prisoner there herself. I do think that means,spiteful nasty touch of having Anne a prisoner in the same suite in which she had lived all bedecked with flowers before her wedding is all Henry. It must have been his very own nasty idea to make himself feel less stupid than he must have actually felt. He knew nobody dared say anything but to put away the wife everybody likes for one they don't like but then to treat her so terrible that people start having sympathy for her too...!! I bet the young man,the Percy heir who Anne probably would have married was counting himself lucky to escape being implicated.