Historical Hero Upgrade: Difference between revisions

*** She is also portrayed as having slept with Sir Thomas Wyatt before her marriage with Henry VIII. There are indications Wyatt may have had romantic feelings for her, though there is no proof that Anne reciprocated, and certainly not that they had sex, as it would have gravely endangered any future marriage of Anne's if she were found to not be a virgin. Wyatt ''was'' arrested for adultery with Anne, writing a poem about witnessing the beheadings of Anne and her co-defendants from his cell window in the Tower of London, but released a year later.

**** If anything, Anne was more fairly depicted in The Tudors—though her sex life is probably exaggerated—while Cromwell is, for once, treated as a human being. He's usually given a [[Historical Villain Upgrade]] due to the exultation of Thomas More. (Who, while in actuality being quite judgmental and sometimes extreme, was given his typical Historical Hero Upgrade in [[The Tudors]].

 

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