#also: maigre vieille et mechante bague? le gasp!

[rosepompadour]

Although everybody rejoices at the execution of the putain, there are some who murmur at the mode of procedure against her and the others, and people speak variously of the King. It will not pacify the world when it is known what has passed and is passing between him and [Jane Seymour]. Already it sounds ill in the ears of the people that the King, having received such ignominy, has shown himself more glad than ever since [Anne's] arrest; for he has been going about banqueting with ladies, sometimes remaining after midnight, and returning by the river. His delight at getting rid of a “maigre vieille et mechante bague,” with hope of change, is a thing specially agreeable to this King. He shows an extravagant joy, and [says that] he had long expected the issue of these affairs. He composed a tragedy [about it], which he carried with him, a little book written in his own hand. - EUSTACE CHAPUYS in a letter to CHARLES V, May 1536

#historicwomendaily #anne boleyn #anneboleynedit #historyedit #perioddramaedit #history #* #can you believe anne boleyn invented sarcasm #what i can't believe is this piece of shit had the nerve to write a sad poem about what happened to HIM while he was building HER scaffold #like he wasn't fucking DELIGHTED #'the sword was a gesture of love!' really? R E A L L Y? #also: maigre vieille et mechante bague? le gasp! #take away maigre and look in a fucking mirror hank #you are at least a decade older than her with oozing sores and a HORSE CRANE