Spamage
spamage
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« on: November 12, 2014, 01:37:23 AM » |
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While a terrible person for her murder of the Protestants, she is often over-vilified.
Henry VIII and Elizabeth both probably put more people to death than her. Also, the root of her contemporary unpopularity was not her religion, but her foreign marriage and the difficulty of harvests during this period. Furthermore when you look at her early life (her parent's divorce, forced to be a servant for Elizabeth, almost fled during the reign of Edward VI) her paranoia makes much more sense and due to this I feel sympathy for her, not hatred.
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