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To: wardaddy
You dont know that.....can’t say it with authority.
Right back at you. Thomas Cromwell arranged a drumhead trial, wiped out most of the Boleyns, and ironically set the clock ticking on his own fall for his very real corruptions, after everyone else at court realized they could be next.

57 posted on 10/01/2021 7:46:57 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv
Yes, in the end, Cromwell was so distrusted and despised that he had no defenders.

The Anne of Cleaves debacle provided the opportunity for his enemies to rid themselves of him.

Unrelated: Anne of Cleaves is my favorite of the wives. She's the only one who came out anything close to a winner. She could figure out which way the wind was blowing, and adjusted her views and conduct in a way that kept her alive and mostly prosperous. In fact she was quite popular.

58 posted on 10/01/2021 7:58:01 AM PDT by TontoKowalski (You can call me "Dick.")
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To: SunkenCiv

That’s the point..no doubt Cromwell felt she was a liability to himself by that juncture

But it’s all speculation now

And scholars who study the body of evidence available today opinions tend to shift with cultural wind

Today with feminism and more specifically #metoo sentiment so called experts look at that Boleyn woman with a hoped for outcome they seek to justify


59 posted on 10/01/2021 8:05:01 AM PDT by wardaddy (Fear Republic land of grumps and scolds peppered with good folks .....empathy always in short suppl)
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