maum wrote:
I read that Anne of Cleves was indeed rather unattractive but sent a very flattering portrait of herself. Henry 'fell in love' (or should I say lust) with the portrait and was traumatised when he saw her in the flesh as she looked totally different.

Which would have been understandable if he himself wasn't a syphilis-ridden, grotesquely obese and increasingly cruel wife-killer. Anne of Cleves was no doubt thanking God or her lucky stars for being booted out of the marriage with an intact neck.




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