Lenore, I'm surprised you know so little about Henry VIII.
Anne Boleyn's alleged adulteries were not collaborated, in fact the evidence produced in court against them was so flimsy that the records were subsequently burned. It is the assessment of all of Anne's biographers and modern-day experts that she was innocent of the charges against her. And the idea that she plotted to have Henry overthrown is laughable. Elizabeth was only 2 years old and Anne's position was weak until she had a son. Therefore, Henry's death might very well have meant the overthrow and ruin of Anne and Elizabeth too. As for her education in France, the court's reputation for debauchery has been exaggerated and it didn't actually reach the party more/moralise less phase of epic self-indulgence until the late 1530s and 1540s under Francis I's last mistress, Anne d'Heilly, by which point Anne Boleyn was dead.
Also, I am astonished at what you said about Catherine Howard. Have you just made that up? Catherine never, ever plotted to have her husband assassinated. She wasn't political in anyway; her affair with Sir Thomas Culpepper did take place, but there was no murderous or political dimension to it. What on earth would Catherine have gained from being a widow? And she wasn't that much against her marriage anyway. Bored and repelled she may have been, but she was also a self-indulgent materialist and Henry indulged her every whim. It was only a year into the marriage that she began cheating; initially, I think her love-lust for jewels made the marriage more than bearable. She was bored and sexually frustrated when her affair began. Adultery in a queen was treason, but that's the extent of her crimes.
Also, the theory that Henry had syphilis has been proven incorrect by the biography of him by Dr. J.J. Scarisbrick and the medical history of him by Sir Arthur MacNulty. Henry wasn't treated for any of the signs of syphilis and in the 1530s and 1540s, mercury was ALWAYS given to wealthy patients with syphilis, including Francis I, King of France and Lord Henry Darnley in the 1560s. And he also didn't exhibit any of the signs of syphilis, contrary to popular myth.
Anne Boleyn's alleged adulteries were not collaborated, in fact the evidence produced in court against them was so flimsy that the records were subsequently burned. It is the assessment of all of Anne's biographers and modern-day experts that she was innocent of the charges against her. And the idea that she plotted to have Henry overthrown is laughable. Elizabeth was only 2 years old and Anne's position was weak until she had a son. Therefore, Henry's death might very well have meant the overthrow and ruin of Anne and Elizabeth too. As for her education in France, the court's reputation for debauchery has been exaggerated and it didn't actually reach the party more/moralise less phase of epic self-indulgence until the late 1530s and 1540s under Francis I's last mistress, Anne d'Heilly, by which point Anne Boleyn was dead.
Also, I am astonished at what you said about Catherine Howard. Have you just made that up? Catherine never, ever plotted to have her husband assassinated. She wasn't political in anyway; her affair with Sir Thomas Culpepper did take place, but there was no murderous or political dimension to it. What on earth would Catherine have gained from being a widow? And she wasn't that much against her marriage anyway. Bored and repelled she may have been, but she was also a self-indulgent materialist and Henry indulged her every whim. It was only a year into the marriage that she began cheating; initially, I think her love-lust for jewels made the marriage more than bearable. She was bored and sexually frustrated when her affair began. Adultery in a queen was treason, but that's the extent of her crimes.
Also, the theory that Henry had syphilis has been proven incorrect by the biography of him by Dr. J.J. Scarisbrick and the medical history of him by Sir Arthur MacNulty. Henry wasn't treated for any of the signs of syphilis and in the 1530s and 1540s, mercury was ALWAYS given to wealthy patients with syphilis, including Francis I, King of France and Lord Henry Darnley in the 1560s. And he also didn't exhibit any of the signs of syphilis, contrary to popular myth.