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"Anne came to court, and acted as Queen before she was. She was with child BEFORE being secretly married. She did have a girl, which disappointed the King and Yes she Elizabeth was one of the greatest rulers of England. As for Jane...He is buried with her. And we will never know nor can we judge that he would have taken another wife. After all she did give him a boy. So where is the justice for KOA when speaking so Ill of JANE...when in MY personal Opinion what AB did was FAR worse to KOA and Mary. Jane was not AB we know that. But I find it hypocritical to judge her when AB displaced KOA."

Henry and Anne had been betrothed for years and once the marriage with Katherine had been dissolved, it was not uncommon for betrothed people to sleep together before the formal wedding ceremony in the 16th century.

Are you not also being hypocritical in not condemning Jane as harshly as you condemn Anne considering you say they did the same thing? Isn't it far worse to take a man's emotions away from his wife while he is still sleeping with her? Henry had stopped sleeiping with Katherine 2 years before he fell for Anne and she left court when she knew he was pursuing her. With Jane, she entertaine Henry's courtship while still sleepin with Anne who actually became pregnant during this time. Anne was totally blindsided while Katherine was aware of Henry's many affairs which she turned a blindeye to.

However, both women miscalculated what the fickle nature of Henry meant for their lives. He would most certainly have moved on to other women even if Jane had survived but he would never have annulled their marriage or murdered her as long as, her son survived. Henry was building a dynasty and wives be damned.

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"I think he just wanted to reconcile with him."

He did want to reconcile with Charles; there's no doubt about it. He went back and forth between France and Spain like a ping pong ball. Whatever it took to get back into good graces with Spain.

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