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11:47 pm
November 18, 2010
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Sharon said
I think Anne was satisfied with the terms of the annulment. She gained properties and monies, and Henry didn’t want to kill her. That must have been a load off her mind. However, she must have been mortified by the whole thing. She came to England believing she was going to be queen. What a humiliating experience it must have been for her to be set aside. Later on when Henry was going to marry again, she must have felt that she was the best candidate to be his wife. And she may have been right, but once again Henry snubbed her.
Horribly humiliated by the whole deal….Having your virginity called into question and then being told your body is too repulsive to have sex with.
Being lied to, directly and by omission. Being powerless and without resources during the whole of her short marriage.
Is it any wonder that she didn’t re-marry rather than subject herself to that again? Anne was told she could re-marry after the annulment but didn’t.
Did she really want to re-shackle herself to some-one like Henry? I suspect that duty would haev prevaled had Henry decided that Anne was a better match than any of his English ladies.
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3:24 pm
January 3, 2012
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I agree Anyanka.. Poor Anne was certainly given the rough end of a pineapple.
Lard Arse certainly did a number on poor Anne, it’s a wonder she actually wanted to stay in England, but I don’t think she was even given that choice to go home either. I think that part of her divorce/pay off deal was that she had to stay in England, so in affect she had to give up her family, as well as her liberty (loosely worded).
What would have happened if she had chosen to remarry? Quite apart from the fact that perhaps Lard Arse would be rubbing his grubby little mitts together over the money he would save not having to pay her any more money. I believe that Thomas Seymour was proposed as a husband for her at one point.
I believe that any letters she wrote to her family had to go through the court sensors first in case she said something that may have upset poor little Henry’s delicate ego blah blah blah….
Anne’s life may have seemed a little easier than it was in Cleves, but at the same time it wasn’t as easy as it was for her in Cleves. Here in good old damp cold blighty,everything she said and did was reported back to Lard Arse, and I suspect she had spies in her household who watched her every move in case she did something that may have cause a diplomatic incident. I’ve no proof of this it is just an idea. Although she did go to court I think she spent Chrimbo 1540 at court, for the most part she was out of sight, living the life of a country gentle woman.
Although having said that she did have some contact with the court via, Elizabeth and Mary, who she did seem very fond of. Lard Arse did repect her which I suppose is something but I don’t think it was because of her behaviour and decorum, I think it was more due to the fact that she had kept her trap shut, about his behaviour towards her, which to me was shameful to say the least.
I rather think that when the fat lump of blubber kicked the bucket she breathed a sigh of relief as well a good lung full of fresh clean air, that didn’t smell of rotton flesh.
She did well to get out of Lard Arse’s web of putrid lies etc, but the cost of it was a very heavy one for her to bear. I must admit I do have a lot of admiration for her, but at the same time I feel very sorry for her too, her life must have been a very lonely one.
Semper Fidelis, quod sum quod
