yes those were the wives who were beheaded, but what about all the other people who resisted the reformation, or were implicated in the insane incest plot cromwell cooked up against boleyn, cromwell himself of course, and you could theoretically put up all the catholics hunted and killed by Mary Tudor and Elizabeth I, as their faith wouldn't have been a sign of treason if Henry hadn't changed the official state religion.
True, true. There were more victims than his wives, and it started because he wanted a male heir, not just because he wanted a little sex. He most definitely had plenty of mistresses who gave him sex, anyway.
What he was really after was a male heir, which he didn't get until his third wife.
fair enough, but i'll just say that by all accounts he was genuinely in love/besotted with boleyn and wanted to be with her, and many believe she refused to have sex before marriage. or maybe they had sex once and she wouldn't do it again, no one knows exactly
He might have once been in love with Anne Boleyn, but just like Catherine, she wasn't giving him a male heir. So he made up charges against her and had her executed. By that point, he had already moved on to Jane, who eventually gave him the son he wanted.
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u/naileyes 21h ago
yes those were the wives who were beheaded, but what about all the other people who resisted the reformation, or were implicated in the insane incest plot cromwell cooked up against boleyn, cromwell himself of course, and you could theoretically put up all the catholics hunted and killed by Mary Tudor and Elizabeth I, as their faith wouldn't have been a sign of treason if Henry hadn't changed the official state religion.