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adderstones · 8 months

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All Henry VIII Wives together

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#tudors #tudor history #henry viii #six wives of henry viii #catherine of aragon #anne boleyn #jane seymour #anne of cleves #catherine howard #katheryn howard #katherine parr #catherine parr

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spellfuls · 5 months

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Tamzin Merchant as Catherine Howard THE TUDORS (2007–2010)

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earlymodernbarbie · 9 days

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The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived by Taylor Swift x The Six Wives of Henry VIII

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lwkshrav · 6 months

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Anne Boleyn saying "maybe he just really liked my head" is so iconic I don't think u understand

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kathrynhoward · 9 months

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TAMZIN MERCHANT as KATHERYN HOWARD THE TUDORS (2007 - 2010)

#perioddramaedit #the tudors #tudorsedit #periodedit #thetudorsedit #kathryn howard #katheryn howard #katherine howard #catherine howard #tamzin merchant #tmerchantedit #*mine

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tercessketchfield · 9 months

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♛ @dailytudors Tudor Week 2023

Day 6 : Favourite Portrayal(s) of the Tudor Family Member(s)

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anne-the-quene · 1 month

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Bonus points if you say why they’re your least favorite

#we’ve had ‘favorite’#now let’s get real #also they’re always listed in chronological order #so let’s see whose paying attention #catherine of aragon #katherine of aragon #anne boleyn #jane seymour #anna of cleves #anne of cleves #katheryn howard #katherine howard #catherine howard #kathryn parr #katherine parr #catherine parr #poll

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valyrianpoem · 1 year

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Tamzin Merchant as CATHERINE HOWARD [3/4] The Tudors (2007)

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gifshistorical · 2 years

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Tamzin Merchant as Katheryn Howard · The Tudors 4.01

#the tudors #thetudorsedit #tudorerasource #tamzin merchant #katheryn howard #catherine howard #perioddramaedit #weloveperioddrama #perioddramasource #khep

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katharinepar · 2 years

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Anyway 👀 I did some AI reconstructions of the Six Wives. I’m new to this software, so some specific details were left untoggled (ie eye color, proportions) because of… general ineptitude. If you are curious to see more, I post this and more Tudor nonsense to my Instagram! 💖

#anne boleyn #the tudors #catherine of aragon #jane seymour #henry viii #Catherine parr #Katherine Howard #katheryn Howard #tudor history #medieval history #queen anne boleyn

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spellfuls · 1 year

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Catherine Howard | The Tudors (2007–2010)

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earlymodernbarbie · 2 months

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The Six Wives Through the Eras✨

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abrabloodycadabra · 2 years

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All of them together! 💜

But just for you tonight

We're divorced, beheaded, LIVE

Gosh, I love Six the Musical, it's keeping me alive for almost a year already 💜

I posted them separately as well, see them here: Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, K Howard, Jane Seymour/Anna of Cleves/Catherine Parr

#six the musical #six the musical fanart #six broadway #art #digital art #catherine of aragon #anne boleyn #jane seymour #anna of cleves #katheryn howard #katherine howard #k howard #catherine parr

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kathrynhoward · 1 year

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TAMZIN MERCHANT as KATHRYN HOWARD THE TUDORS 4.02

#perioddramaedit #periodgif #periodedit #the tudors #thetudorsedit #tudoredit #tudorsedit #khowardedit #kathryn howard #katheryn howard #Katherine Howard #tmerchantedit #tamzinmerchantedit #tamzin merchant #Catherine Howard #*mine

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tercessketchfield · 2 years

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Tudor monarchs + family members executed

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anne-the-quene · 10 days

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I’m curious…what is your opinion of Henry’s relationship with each of his wves?

Oh my goodness gracious, thank you for this, Anon! (This got ridiculously long so I’m putting it under a cut)

Okay I guess I’ll start with Catherine of Aragon since she never gets to go first…

Hot take (not really) but I don’t think she and Henry had this great romantic love. And, for the record, I think it was mutual. I don’t think either of them loved each other in a romantic way. However, I also don’t think that Henry married her because he was forced to…because who forced him? His father? Yeah, Henry claimed later on that he only married Catherine because it was his father’s “dying wish” (or something to that effect) but we don’t know if that’s actually true and also, Henry denounced the betrothal in 1505 and no one forced him to go through with it regardless. And, certainly, none of the naysayers were forcing him to go through with it. Catherine apologists make so much of Henry uses the “brother’s widow” excuse during the Great Matter and completely gloss over the fact that there were multiple people also citing this as a reason during the period of Catherine’s widowhood.

I think, what it came down to, was that Henry knew that Catherine had been living in wealthy poverty and was maybe not being treated very kindly by his father, and Henry was also dealing with his own poor treatment by his father, and so Henry saw himself as this knight in shining armor rescuing the damsel in distress. Of course, Henry and Catherine had also known each other for almost a decade—it’s hard to know exactly what their relationship was like during those years because I doubt they really interacted much, but if Catherine was kind to him then that would add to why Henry was so okay with ignoring the naysayers. And then, in the early years of their marriage, Henry came to admire and respect her.

Where things get complicated is the issue of their children. I remember once seeing this article Suzannah Lipscomb wrote where she speculated how their marriage would be if Henry, Duke of Cornwall had lived and Suzannah made it out to be that everything was all rainbows and sunshine and she was his beloved wife forever etc etc. That’s great, Suzy, but I really don’t think it’s, at all, realistic. Certainly, if Catherine had had a healthy son who survived, Henry wouldn’t have divorced her even after she hit menopause. But Ithink it’s very optimistic to say their marriage would’ve been perfect. Obviously, losing so many children didn’t help. But, like I said, I don’t think Henry was deeply in love with her, so I think it’s inevitable that he would’ve strayed (I guess is the right word?).

On to Anne (strap in y’all this already way too long answer is gonna get even longer).

So I mentioned how I don’t think Henry was really romantically in love with Catherine. I think that Anne was the first time (and the last time actually) that Henry genuinely, properly, fell in love with someone (sorry Bessie stans…do those exist? Probably…somewhere…I definitely feel like I’ve seen at least one person try to argue that Bessie was the great love of his life). Anyway, yeah I think Henry had all of these grand romantic ideas about himself and he believed himself to be in love with every pretty girl…and then he met Anne and his brain just short-circuited. (And, who can blame him, I mean Anne Boleyn is obviously the most perfect woman whose ever existed, I’m in love with her 😂). In all seriousness, Henry didn’t have the great passionate love with Catherine but he definitely had it with Anne. We could talk about what went wrong in that relationship, but I’ve already stated my opinion on that and almost got run off of Tumblr for it.

So moving on to Jane…

Oh dear. It amazes me how many people still believe Henry’s own propaganda. So, unfortunately, for those of you, it’s very clear to me that Henry never loved Jane at all. He treated her pretty poorly while she was alive. I think she appealed to him because she wasn’t Anne. After she died, he fell head over heels with the idea of her. But that’s about it.

Now, lucky number 4.

I feel like I don’t really need to say much about this one. Henry made his feelings about Anna pretty clear.

I guess I could talk about their post-divorce relationship. What’s sad is that I think Anna could’ve actually been good for him. She comes across as a pretty chill person, but she also enjoyed a lot of the same things that he enjoyed. I think, if Henry had just not done that stupid thing of thinking that he was still 20 years old and that Anna would magically recognize him somehow, then I think they could’ve been brilliant together.

Onto Katheryn number 2.

I feel like this one is pretty self-explanatory. Henry was getting old, he couldn’t exercise like he used to, he had mobility issues, he was becoming obese…and Katheryn made him feel young again. What’s interesting comparing Katheryn and Anne’s downfall—Anne died because she was powerful, Katheryn died because she was powerless.I mean, it’s not insignificant that Katheryn’s downfall took months while Anne’s took just a few weeks. Obviously, the suspicion of Katheryn committing adultery was embarrassing for him, but she stuck around so long under house arrest because the only real threat Katheryn posed was to Henry’s ego.

Yee-haw, it’s Kathryn Parr (any Rex Factor fans out there?)

This one I also feel like is pretty self-explanatory. By this point, Henry has alienated and killed everyone who ever cared about him so, naturally, he’s feeling pretty lonely. What I find most interesting is that Kathryn was older and more mature and, obviously learned. I think with Jane, especially, and to a lesser-extent, Katheryn, Henry was kind of over intelligent women who could stand up to him. But I get the sense that, after Katheryn’s execution, he kind of got tired of the subservient wife. I think Henry actually preferred intelligent, feisty women, but things had gone so horribly wrong with Anne that he wanted the opposite. But then he quickly got bored of the opposite. Obviously, at this point in Henry’s life he’s really not interested in anyone standing up to him or trying to impose their opinions on him, but he still wanted someone he could have a conversation with. And Kathryn, bless her, was clever enough to match him intellectually without pushing the boundaries too much.

Wow, this got so insanely long. I’ll put it under a cut so it doesn’t clog up anyone’s feed.

But, you know, when I really spell it out like this, it just emphasizes how frustrating it is when all the wives get lumped together and the last few even get largely ignored. Because, for all of them, their circumstances for becoming Henry’s wife were completely different, and all of their relationships with him are completely different. People act like him having six wves was inevitable or that his choices were completely random. On one level, I can understand why people lump them together in this neat “Six Wives” package but doing that completely ignores the fact that they were individuals, not just a part of this rotating door of arbitrarily chosen women.

#henry viii #catherine of aragon #katherine of aragon #anne boleyn #jane seymour #anna of cleves #anne of cleves #katheryn howard #katherine howard #catherine howard #kathryn parr #catherine parr #ask

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