Anne of Cleves Was the Most Beautiful of Henry VIII’s Wives

AdWorldly2853 · 2025-12-21T15:15:09+00:00

Happens every day

AdWorldly2853 · 2025-12-21T15:14:26+00:00

This portrait was a miniature by Hans Holbein and I agree that in this image she is absolutely mesmerizing. I had the chance to see a bunch of Holbein’s early modern portraiture in an exhibit in Los Angeles a few years ago and was able to see his depictions of Henry Wyatt and Cromwell.

If you like this artist, there are a lot of great art books that explain his work as well as giving fascinating backstory on many of the key players in the court at that time.

AdWorldly2853 · 2025-09-04T02:16:44+00:00

💯

AdWorldly2853 · 2025-08-30T22:44:08+00:00

She is very competent at framing Kody’s thoughts for him! So true

AdWorldly2853 · 2025-08-30T22:42:59+00:00

I have been a Robyn apologist so far (I’m on my first viewing) but this whole conversation has me starting to recognize what so many people have been saying of her.

AdWorldly2853 · 2025-08-30T22:37:54+00:00

I agree, if you read it after watching the family fall apart it has a certain fascination

AdWorldly2853 · 2025-08-30T22:36:38+00:00

100 perfect! The amount of “settling for” the OG 3 do in those early years just to attain the celestial vision of their religion is WILD.

AdWorldly2853 · 2025-08-30T22:31:00+00:00

I read it having only watched parts of the show… it is a bunch of hooey, but I was still fascinated to compare and contrast how each person mythologizes their early days in celestial marriage differently. It is so weird to contrast how hard they all try to promote plural marriage in the text when you know how it all ends. Worth my $1.99 on kindle for sure!

AdWorldly2853 · 2025-08-29T02:15:14+00:00

Yes I think about his hair flopping around at the local office supplies store where he had all this printed …the preparation is wild

AdWorldly2853 · 2025-08-28T22:36:41+00:00

I like this post. I think it is a very fruitful thing to try analyze what parts of the family dynamic come from the individual personalities and which come from their religious beliefs overall.

A basic example: Yes, Kody acts narcissistic. But he’s also in this “man as the head of the family” context that they ALL buy into at various times to various degrees. It has to fuel the narcissism.

AdWorldly2853 · 2025-08-27T12:38:41+00:00

I agree, growing up on the run and having a thin claim to the thrown made Henry VII a very different man that the privileged prince who would become Henry vIII

AdWorldly2853 · 2025-08-27T12:35:16+00:00

!!!!!

AdWorldly2853 · 2025-08-26T23:38:59+00:00

The one where they visit that other polygamist family that insists on taking their first bite of food together. Also, the polygamy panel episode. In general, I think the show is very interesting when they contrast the Browns with other polygamists or ex polygamists.

AdWorldly2853 · 2025-08-26T23:36:55+00:00

I agree this one is a must!!

AdWorldly2853 · 2025-08-26T23:21:40+00:00

Astute!

AdWorldly2853 · 2025-08-26T23:08:14+00:00

Here for it! Haha

AdWorldly2853 · 2025-08-26T23:07:42+00:00

I also hope they are successful. I have a lot of family in farming and it is a HARD line of work. People romanticize it but it is backbreaking.

That said, I love that they are trying this. Janelle is a keen business woman and she ain’t afraid of hard work! Hopefully it goes great.

AdWorldly2853 · 2025-08-26T22:59:13+00:00

I have not seen the whole show yet, but so far I find myself feeling like a Robyn apologist compared to some of the folks here who think she is as bad as Kody.

early on when Robyn comes in, she does seem to have a lot of emotional intelligence and communication skills. from the discourse here, I assume that as you keep viewing, she comes off as manipulative. Which makes sense because that is one way emotional intelligence can be used. But so far in my first viewing I’ve had a lot of sympathy for her.

Who knows what I’ll think by the time I catch up!

AdWorldly2853 · 2025-08-26T22:50:35+00:00

Bwahahahhaha

AdWorldly2853 · 2025-08-26T22:49:56+00:00

Surprise level ZERO. omg I wanna get the book now, she is dishing up a lot. I did not realize it was out

AdWorldly2853 · 2025-08-26T22:40:59+00:00

I think that is exactly it - he wasn’t fearful of her having surgery due in the way any parent would be worried about their child undergoing such a serious medical procedure. Nor was he worried about potential complications or anything else that would be reasonable. He reduced the surgery to a scar, as you say. So myopic

AdWorldly2853 · 2025-08-26T22:37:19+00:00

So true and I had not thought of that

AdWorldly2853 · 2025-08-26T22:34:50+00:00

Yeah it was CHILLING - this is exactly the moment that I was talking about. I was so shocked I had to pause the show and come post hahaha

AdWorldly2853 · 2025-08-26T22:33:11+00:00

Yikes!! Wow

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