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Katherine of Aragon supporters/fans, what's your opinion on Anne Boleyn?

i'm gonna be honest, as i started watching the series and reading about the real history behind it i was totally on Katherine of Aragon's side and hated henry obviously but also Anne, for all that happened to Katherine and Mary during that time. i really hated Anne. But when i got to the last two episodes of s2, where henry turns on Anne and has her arrested and stuff i totally switched and started loving anne and feeling so bad for her. i cried when i watched the execution. either way, henry was a pig. and as always, men are the demise of women. heartbreaking, truly

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u/Empty_Willingness752 — 8 days ago
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Why didn’t Queen Elizabeth bury Mary I next to her mother like she wanted?

Although Mary had left instructions in her will for her mother Catherine of Aragon's remains to be exhumed from her humble tomb in Peterborough Cathedral so that mother and daughter could be buried together, her instructions were ignored. Mary was buried by herself at Westminster, with just stones marking her resting place.

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u/name_not_important00 — 8 days ago
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The evolution of Mary’s signatures over the years: 1516–1533 (actually 1536)–1553

It is quite natural to see these three dates as representing three stages of Mary’s life: the first period from 1516 to 1533, the second from 1533 to 1553, and the third from 1553 to 1558.

The dates I gave in the title refer not so much to the dates on which the signatures were written, but to the periods during which Mary used those forms of signature. When Mary was demoted from princess to lady in 1533, she resisted this for three years and continued to sign her letters as “Mary Princess.” Eventually, however, she was forced to give up the title of princess. In 1553, she simply began using her title, “the quene,” after her name.

It is very simple, but as I once read somewhere, it reminds us of who she was. Other monarchs would simply sign their names, while some would also add an “R,” the initial of the Latin word for their title, rex or regina.

This is what makes Mary’s signature particularly interesting.

u/Suerly-04 — 8 days ago
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Anne of Cleves Pub, Melton Mowbrey, UK. Built 1384 Owned by Anne of Cleves 1540-1557 in her divorce settlement.

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Interesting history. Built for monks and priests but Henry VIII and the Reformation meant the property was transferred to Thomas Cromwell as a thank you for getting Henry VIII his divorce in 1538. After Henry VIII accused Thomas Cromwell of catfishing him with Anne of Cleves, Thomas Cromwell was executed in 1540. The house then went to Anne of Cleves in her divorce settlement in 1557.

u/HoneybeeXYZ — 11 days ago