Date: 22 Oct 2012 07:38 pm (UTC)
ext_23531: (shadow of the tower: henry tudor/elizabe)
That moment is described in Winter King, too, and I found it deeply touching. I love how you know when certain things are taken directly from historical records because they are repeated in just about every fictional work on said person/people/etc. Of course, this particular one has only one example, but a good example is Henry VIII's words upon the birth of the future Elizabeth I: ''If we can have a healthy daughter, we can have a healthy son.'' It's in pretty much every version of her birth I've seen.

That blog is great fun. It's especially interesting to see how historical fiction regarding the Wars of the Roses era is dominated by ricardians who hopelessly romanticize Richard III (Higginbotham has a lot of fun with those), and demonize his opponents (especially Henry VII, Elizabeth Woodville, and Margaret Beaufort), hence the whole Henry Was the Worst Husband Ever thing. Ironic, considering how the whole society is supposed to be based on a historical figure being unfairly maligned...


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