the Tudors

I just finished reading my June 2010 edition of the Ricardian Bulletin in which is a book review by Ricardian Dorothea Preis, who I believe lives in Australia. It is about a book names "Amenable Women" which she reviews and posits from the information learned in this book that Anne of CLeves suffered from the same kind of Tudor character
assassination as Richard III. If you still have your back copies of the Ricardian Bulletin, it is on page 28 of the June 2010 issue.
Very interesting and enlightening! I had heard before that Anne of CLeves lived a comfortable life and befriended Henry's girls.

L.M.L.,
Janet T.

Thank you, Janet, for your kind words. Anne did indeed live comfortably while
Henry was alive (and was much better off as his "sister" than the wife of
someone so gross), though apparently this changed under Edward VI. However, if
you have a look through the general interest information available on her, she
is mostly mentioned with the stereotypes "Flanders mare" and so ugly. Which is
the same with the stereotypes of Richard (evil, murdered the nephews and anyone
else). I actually saw the other day that Henry apparently never coined the
phrase "Flanders mare" and that that only came up in the 17th century.


Cheers, Dorothea





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From: "J. T," <treenbagh@...>
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Subject: the Tudors


I just finished reading my June 2010 edition of the Ricardian Bulletin in which
is a book review by Ricardian Dorothea Preis, who I believe lives in Australia.
It is about a book names "Amenable Women" which she reviews and posits from the
information learned in this book that Anne of CLeves suffered from the same kind
of Tudor character

assassination as Richard III. If you still have your back copies of the
Ricardian Bulletin, it is on page 28 of the June 2010 issue.
Very interesting and enlightening! I had heard before that Anne of CLeves lived
a comfortable life and befriended Henry's girls.

L.M.L.,
Janet T.