V. QUICK, MOAR LATER: I think (and this is just conjecture rn, but I wish to find out for certain!) that there are two main differences between Henry VIII and Edward's Sexy Situation are: 1) Misogynist look on divorce. Henry was divorcing ladies to marry other ladies because his sperm is always renewed, i guess, and he's a dude. Edward wanted to marry a woman who had slept with TWO MEN, omg damaged goods. This is why the Catherine of Aragon marriage is questionable because she was married to Henry's older brother, but he died and there were no children so they said LOL ANNULLMENT! THEY NEVER SEXED. but that was obviously QUESTIONABLE; and Catherine Howard is killed for treason since Henry finds out that she was sleepin' around before and after they got married; and why Catherine Parr was OKAY because despite the fact taht she had THREE HUSBANDS PREVIOUS, she's a widow on all accounts. I guess. IDK. 2) Henry VIII had tons more power over how things were run vs. the House of Windsor. Henry could get you killed pretty immediately; Edward and family, less so.
BUT I WILL FIND OUT MORE CONCRETE REASONS. I WAS EQUALLY INTRIGUED.
ahhh those both make excellent sense. I think the second one mostly because by the time Edward was king he didn't really have any real power~, so the government could be like "No." Whereas Jonathan Rhys Meyers could have surely handwaved all of the other stuff and been like "MY ENGLAND MY RULES, I GET TO MARRY THE AMERICAN SKANK."
Catherine Parr was OKAY because despite the fact taht she had THREE HUSBANDS PREVIOUS, she's a widow on all accounts. I guess. Haha, yes widow obviously > divorcee. They kept being like "Wallis has two former husbands STILL LIVING (If only she had had them killed this would all be okay!)"
1) Misogynist look on divorce. Henry was divorcing ladies to marry other ladies because his sperm is always renewed, i guess, and he's a dude. Edward wanted to marry a woman who had slept with TWO MEN, omg damaged goods. This is why the Catherine of Aragon marriage is questionable because she was married to Henry's older brother, but he died and there were no children so they said LOL ANNULLMENT! THEY NEVER SEXED. but that was obviously QUESTIONABLE; and Catherine Howard is killed for treason since Henry finds out that she was sleepin' around before and after they got married; and why Catherine Parr was OKAY because despite the fact taht she had THREE HUSBANDS PREVIOUS, she's a widow on all accounts. I guess. IDK.
2) Henry VIII had tons more power over how things were run vs. the House of Windsor. Henry could get you killed pretty immediately; Edward and family, less so.
BUT I WILL FIND OUT MORE CONCRETE REASONS. I WAS EQUALLY INTRIGUED.
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Catherine Parr was OKAY because despite the fact taht she had THREE HUSBANDS PREVIOUS, she's a widow on all accounts. I guess.
Haha, yes widow obviously > divorcee. They kept being like "Wallis has two former husbands STILL LIVING (If only she had had them killed this would all be okay!)"
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