Dark! Male Catherine of Aragon and Male Anne Boleyn x Queen Reader
You became the heiress of England after the death of your older brother, Arthur.
That's where you get married to your betrothed, Charles of Aragon at a young age, then become the rulers of England, with you as the queen of England and him as your king consort.
You can't deny his kindness towards you, and how he stood with you during the loss of your children.
But you didn't fall for him even after giving birth to Mary who managed to survive infancy.
The reason why you couldn't love him is due to his possessive attitude, and the many fights you had due to him believing that you are having affairs with other men.
Also, you are pressured to have a son by your advisors because the next rulers can't also be a woman.
You always tried your best, but eventually found yourself attracted to another man, Anthony Boleyn.
Even though, you tried to avoid him, it was hard, with his seductive words, charm, and how close he is to you in age.
Anthony manipulated you in believing that Charles of Aragon is too controlling and that he heard that your husband is cheating on you with the Spanish ambassador's daughter.
You couldn't be with Anthony while married.
So, you asked Charles to annualize your marriage and as expected he refused and threatened you.
Which led to you exiling him and forcing the church of England to annualize the marriage.
Finally, you end up with Anthony...however, he was worse than your first husband.
He literally killed off any one he thought of as a competition or kicked them out of court.
Anthony seized power in the court, that he even dared to take decisions without informing you.
Charles Brandon, your childhood friend and brother in law, is the one who told you what is happening.
Realizing how you were manipulated, and the moment you gave birth to Elizabeth, you made a decision.
You ordered the execution of Anthony for treason.
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They Came Before Us - Natalie Mitchell
“In 2019, I joined a collective of women dedicated to uncovering the UK’s history of Black, Asian and Ethnic Minority Women as part of the Collage Arts Heritage Lottery project. The series focuses on the story of Catalina De Cardones, Lady-in-waiting to Queen Katherine of Aragon. These images play with the traditional positions of power that would’ve existed between a Queen and her Lady-in-waiting. This is not to say that Catalina is master over Katherine, more a display of Catalina’s care towards Katherine. Catalina would have cared for Katherine. She would have been her interpreter, helped her in a foreign land far from home; away from everything the two would have known.”
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“Catherine no doubt employed professional embroiderers and artists to draw the design on the cloth and to do much of the embroidery for more mundane objects such as sheets, pillowcases, and table linens. But she followed in her mother’s footsteps by embroidering the necklines, collars, and cuffs of personal items of clothing such as shifts and shirts. Anne Boleyn broke with this tradition when she refused to embroider Henry’s shirts.”
— Theresa Earenfight, Catherine of Aragon: Infanta of Spain, Queen of England
EDIT: this post and blog is trans inclusionary, and not for TERFs. Trans rights are human rights.
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Catherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn for my Six Wives of Henry VIII project. These portraits have taken a lot of research to get them to look as accurate as I can get them without access to a lot of academic texts in America. Both portraits are based on contemporary, or near-contemporary copies of lost originals, especially in the case of Anne.
For Catherine’s portrait, I intended to illustrate a younger queen about a decade before Henry started looking into annulling their marriage. For Anne, I wanted to portray her life as a courtier and musician, since she excelled at both. Her instrument is called a rebec, which was kind of like a premodern violin.
This project is part of a broader theoretical series into archeologic illustration. I’ve uploaded the process of painting Catherine over on tiktok with a bit of history of her life. Anne’s vid to come soon!
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